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。
But concerning those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:
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 on account of fornication, 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 give to the wife that which is due, and likewise the wife also to the 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 has not the authority over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not the authority over his own body, but the 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。
Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.
6 されど我が斯くいふは命ずるにあらず、許すなり。
But I speak this according to knowledge, not according to commandment.
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。
But I wish that all men were even as myself; but each one has his own gift from God, some one, and some 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。
But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may 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 do not contain, let them marry: for 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。
But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart 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 indeed she may depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled unto her husband); and that the husband shall not send away the 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 I say to the rest, not the Lord, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is willing to live with him, let him not send her away.
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 any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, let her not send away 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 the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the brother. Since then your children are unclean; 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。
But if the unbeliever departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you 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。
For what do you know, O wife, if you shall save your husband? And what do you know, O husband, if you shall 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。
If not as the Lord has imparted to each one, and as God has called each one, so let him or her walk. And thus I command in 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。
Is one called having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has one been called in uncircumcision? let him not get 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, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 各人その召されし時の状に止るべし。
Let each one abide in the same calling in which he is 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）
Have you been called being a slave? let it not be a care to you: but if indeed you are able to become free, use it in preference.
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 having been called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise the one having been called, while free, is the slave of Christ.
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 have been bought with a price; be not the 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。
Let each one remain with the Lord, in the same calling in which he was called, brethren.
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。
But concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give knowledge, as one having obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.
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。
But I consider this to be good on account of the present distress, that it is good for a man so to be.
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。
Have you been given to a wife? do not seek separation; have you been separated 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。
But if, indeed you may marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned; but such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I 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、
But I say this, brethren; that the time is at hand, that moreover indeed those having wives may be as those not having;
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 weeping, as those not weeping; and those rejoicing, as those not rejoicing; and those buying, as those 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 using the world, as those not using it thoroughly: for the fashion of this world 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 wish you to be free from solicitude. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, in order that he may 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 the one having married cares for the things of the world, in order that he may 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。
A wife and a virgin truly also differ: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but she having married cares for the things of the world, that she may 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 speak this for the profit of you yourselves; not that I may cast a burden upon you, but for that which is pleasing and acceptable to the Lord without perturbation.
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 any one considers that he is acting indiscreetly towards his virgin, if she may be marriageable, and thus it ought so to be, let him do what he wishes; 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 whosoever stands firm in his heart, having no necessity, and has the right according to his own will, and has determined this in his heart, to keep his virgin, will do 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 indeed he that marries his own virgin does well; and he that marries her not will do 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 has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; 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 happier if she may so remain, according to my opinion: but I realize that I truly have the Spirit of God.
