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 about what you wrote to me: “It's good not to marry.”
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。
However, because of the temptation to sexual immorality, it is better that each man have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
3 夫はその分を妻に盡し、妻もまた夫に然すべし。
The husband should meet his wife's sexual needs, and the wife her husband's.
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's body doesn't just belong to her, but her husband; and similarly the husband's body doesn't just belong to him but his wife.
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。
So don't deprive each other, except by mutual consent for a while— for example because you want to spend time in prayer. Afterwards be together again so that Satan won't tempt you to sin 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。
I'm telling you this not as a command, but as a concession.
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。
However, I wish that everyone was like me, but each person has their own gift from God—one has this gift, one has another.
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。
To those who are not yet married, or who are widowed, I would say it is better if they remain like me.
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 lack self-control, then they should get married—for it is better to marry than burn with desire.
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。
These are my instructions to those who are married—in fact not from me but the Lord: The wife should not leave 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。
(or if she does, she should not re-marry, or she should return to her husband); and the husband should not leave 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。
Now, to the rest of you, (and this is me speaking, not the Lord), I would say, “If a Christian man has a non-Christian wife and she is willing to stay with him, he should not leave 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 if a Christian woman has a non-Christian husband, and he is willing to stay with her, she should not leave her husband.”
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 a husband who is not a Christian, the marriage relationship is made holy by the Christian wife, and for a wife who is not a Christian, the marriage relationship is made holy by the Christian husband. Otherwise it would mean your children were impure, but now they are holy.
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。
However, if the non-Christian spouse leaves, let them leave. In such cases the Christian man or woman is not slavishly bound, for God has called us to live in 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。
Wives, who knows? You may save your husband! Husbands, who knows? You may 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。
Apart from such cases, each of you should remain in the situation that the Lord has placed you, and continue to live the life to which God has called you. That's my instruction to all the churches.
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。
Were you circumcised when you were converted? Don't become uncircumcised. Were you uncircumcised when you were converted? Don't become 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 doesn't mean anything, and uncircumcision doesn't mean anything. Keeping the commandments of God is what really matters.
20 各人その召されし時の状に止るべし。
Everyone should remain in the position they were in when they were 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）
If you were a slave when you were called, don't worry—though if you have an opportunity to become free, take it.
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。
If you were a slave when the Lord called you, you are now free, working for the Lord. In the same way if you were called when you were free, you are now 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。
A price has been paid for you, so don't become a slave to anyone.
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 and sisters, remain in the position you were in when you were called, living with God.
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 “people who are not married,” I don't have a specific instruction from the Lord, so let me give you my opinion as someone who by the Lord's mercy is considered 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。
Because of the present difficult situation we are in I think it is best to just stay as you are.
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 already married? Don't try to get divorced. Are you unmarried? Don't look to get married.
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。
If you do get married, you haven't sinned. If an unmarried woman gets married, she hasn't sinned. But you will have many troubles in this current world and I would want to spare you these.
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、
I'm telling you, brothers and sisters, that time is short, and from now on for those who are married it may seem as if they are not married,
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 if they did not weep, and those that celebrated as if they had not celebrated, and those that bought as if they did not own,
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 are engaged with the world as if it is not fulfilling—for the present world order 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、
I would prefer you to be free from such worries. A man who is not married pays attention to what is important to the Lord, and how he can 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。
But a man who is married pays attention to what is important in this world, and how he can 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。
As a result his loyalties are divided. Similarly an unmarried woman or girl pays attention to what is important to the Lord, so she may live a life dedicated both in body and spirit. But a married woman pays attention to what is important in this world, and how she can 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'm telling you this for your benefit. I'm not trying to put a noose around your neck, but to show you the right thing to do so you can serve the Lord without being distracted.
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。
But if a man thinks he's behaving improperly with the woman he's engaged to, and if he thinks he will give in to his strong sexual desire, and if he thinks he ought to get married, he is not sinning by getting married.
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 if a man stays true to his principles, and there is no obligation to marry, and has the power to keep his feelings under control and stay engaged to her, he does well not to marry.
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 the man who marries the woman he's engaged to does well, while the one who does not get married 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 wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry whoever she wants 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 in my opinion she would be happier if she didn't re-marry—and I think I too have the Spirit of God when I say this.
