コリント人への手紙第一 7
1 汝らが我に書きおくりし事に就きては、男の女に觸れぬを善しとす。
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 然れど淫行を免れんために、男はおのおの其の妻をもち、女はおのおの其の夫を有つべし。
But because of the fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3 夫はその分を妻に盡し、妻もまた夫に然すべし。
Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
4 妻は己が身を支配する權をもたず、之を持つ者は夫なり。斯くのごとく夫も己が身を支配する權を有たず、之を有つ者は妻なり。
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; similarly also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 相 共に拒むな、ただ祈に身を委ぬるため合意にて暫く相 別れ、後また偕になるは善し。これ汝らが情の禁じがたきに乘じてサタンの誘ふことなからん爲なり。
Do not deprive one another except by mutual consent for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and to prayer, and come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 されど我が斯くいふは命ずるにあらず、許すなり。
Now I say this as a concession, not as a command
7 わが欲する所は、すべての人の我が如くならん事なり。然れど神より各自おのが賜物を受く、此は此のごとく、彼は彼のごとし。
(though I wish that all men were even as I myself; but each has his own gift from God, one like this and one like that).
8 我は婚姻せぬ者および寡婦に言ふ。もし我が如くにして居らば、彼 等のために善し。
Yes I say to the unmarried and the widows: it is good for them if they should remain even as I;
9 もし自ら制すること能はずば婚姻すべし、婚姻するは胸の燃ゆるよりも勝ればなり。
but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry; since it is better to marry than to burn.
10 われ婚姻したる者に命ず（命ずる者は我にあらず、主なり）妻は夫と別るべからず。
Now to the married I command (not I but the Lord): a wife is not to be separated from her husband
11 もし別るる事あらば、嫁がずして居るか、又は夫と和げ。夫もまた妻を去るべからず。
(but if she does separate herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to divorce his wife.
12 その外の人に我いふ（主の言ひ給ふにあらず）もし或 兄弟に不 信者なる妻ありて偕に居ることを可しとせば、之を去るな。
But to the rest I (not the Lord) say: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.
13 また女に不 信者なる夫ありて偕に居ることを可しとせば、夫を去るな。
And a woman who has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.
14 そは不 信者なる夫は妻によりて潔くなり、不 信者なる妻は夫によりて潔くなりたればなり。然なくば汝らの子供は潔からず、されど今は潔き者なり。
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are consecrated.
15 不 信者みづから離れ去らば、その離るるに任せよ。斯くのごとき事あらば、兄弟または姉妹、もはや繋がるる所なし。神の汝らを召し給へるは平和を得させん爲なり。
But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate—in such cases the brother or the sister is not enslaved, but God has called us to peace.
16 妻よ、汝いかで夫を救ひ得るや否やを知らん。夫よ、汝いかで妻を救ひ得るや否やを知らん。
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
17 唯おのおの主の分ち賜ふところ、神の召し給ふところに循ひて歩むべし。凡ての教會に我が命ずるは斯くのごとし。
Otherwise, as God has distributed to each, as the Lord has called each one, so let him live (this is what I command in all the congregations).
18 割禮ありて召されし者あらんか、その人、割禮を廢つべからず。割禮なくして召されし者あらんか、その人、割禮を受くべからず。
Was anyone already circumcised when called? Let him not reverse it. Was anyone uncircumcised when called? Let him not be circumcised.
19 割禮を受くるも受けぬも數ふるに足らず、ただ貴きは神の誡命を守ることなり。
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, compared to keeping God's commandments.
20 各人その召されし時の状に止るべし。
Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.
21 なんぢ奴隷にて召されたるか、之を思ひ煩ふな（もし釋さるることを得ばゆるされよ）
Were you called while a slave? Do not let it bother you, but if you can really become free, do so.
22 召されて主にある奴隷は、主につける自主の人なり。斯くのごとく自主にして召されたる者は、キリストの奴隷なり。
For the one in the Lord who was called while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Similarly, the one who was called while free is Christ's slave.
23 汝らは價をもて買はれたる者なり。人の奴隷となるな。
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
24 兄弟よ、おのおの召されし時の状に止りて神と偕に居るべし。
Brothers, let each one remain with God in the social condition in which he was called.
25 處女のことに就きては主の命を受けず、然れど主の憐憫によりて忠實の者となりたれば、我が意見を告ぐべし。
Now about the virgins I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
26 われ思ふに、目前の患難のためには、人その在るが隨にて止るぞ善き。
I consider therefore that this is good because of the current distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is:
27 なんぢ妻に繋がるる者なるか、釋くことを求むな。妻に繋がれぬ者なるか、妻を求むな。
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28 たとひ妻を娶るとも罪を犯すにはあらず。處女もし嫁ぐとも罪を犯すにあらず。然れどかかる者はその身、苦難に遭はん、我なんぢらを苦難に遭はすに忍びず。
However, should you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned. Still, such will have trouble in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
29 兄弟よ、われ之を言はん、時は縮れり。されば此よりのち妻を有てる者は有たぬが如く、
Now I say this, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
30 泣く者は泣かぬが如く、喜ぶ者は喜ばぬが如く、買ふ者は有たぬが如く、
and those who weep as though not weeping, and those who rejoice as though not rejoicing, and those who buy as though not possessing,
31 世を用ふる者は用ひ盡さぬが如くすべし。此の世の状態は過ぎ往くべければなり。
and those who use this world as though not abusing it; because this world's mode is passing away.
32 わが欲する所は汝らが思ひ煩はざらん事なり。婚姻せぬ者は如何にして主を喜ばせんと主のことを慮ぱかり、
Now I want you to be without anxiety. He who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord: how he will please the Lord.
33 婚姻せし者は如何にして妻を喜ばせんと、世のことを慮ぱかりて心を分つなり。
While he who is married cares about the things of the world: how he will please his wife.
34 婚姻せぬ女と處女とは身も靈も潔くならんために主のことを慮ぱかり、婚姻せし者は如何にしてその夫を喜ばせんと世のことを慮ぱかるなり。
The wife and the virgin are also different. She who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; while she who is married cares about the things of the world: how she will please her husband.
35 わが之を言ふは汝らを益せん爲にして、汝らに絆を置かんとするにあらず、寧ろ汝らを宣しきに適はせ、餘念なく只管、主に事へしめんとてなり。
I am saying this for your own profit, not to put a leash on you, but for what is appropriate, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.
36 人もし處女たる己が娘に對すること宣しきに適はずと思ひ、年の頃もまた過ぎんとし、かつ然せざるを得ずば、心のままに行ふべし。これ罪を犯すにあらず、婚姻せさすべし。
Now if anyone thinks he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and thus it should be, let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry.
37 されど人もし其の心を堅くし、止むを得ざる事もなく、又おのが心の隨になすを得て、その娘を留め置かんと心のうちに定めたらば、然するは善きなり。
But he who stands steadfast in his heart, not having necessity, but has control over his own will, and has determined in his heart to preserve his own virginity, does well.
38 されば其の娘を嫁がする者の行爲は善し。されど之を嫁がせぬ者の行爲は更に善し。
So then, he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.
39 妻は夫の生ける間は繋がるるなり。然れど夫もし死なば、欲するままに嫁ぐ自由を得べし、また主にある者にのみ適くべし。
A woman is bound by law for as long as her husband lives, but if the man should die, she is free to be married to whom she wishes—only in the Lord.
40 然れど我が意見にては、その儘に止らば殊に幸福なり。我もまた神の御靈に感じたりと思ふ。
But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have God's Spirit.
