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。
And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good [it is] 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。
and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
3 夫はその分を妻に盡し、妻もまた夫に然すべし。
to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife 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 over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, 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。
Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;
6 されど我が斯くいふは命ずるにあらず、許すなり。
and this I say by way of concurrence — not of 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。
for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.
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。
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];
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。
and if they have not continence — 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。
and to the married I announce — not I, but the Lord — let not a wife separate from a 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 and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a 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。
And to the rest I speak — not the Lord — if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell 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 a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;
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 hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise 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。
And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself — let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such [cases], and in peace hath God called us;
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, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?
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 God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each — so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:
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。
being circumcised — was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one 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。
the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing — but a keeping of the commands of God.
20 各人その召されし時の状に止るべし。
Each in the calling in which he was called — in this let him remain;
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）
a servant — wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free — use [it] rather;
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 he who [is] in the Lord — having been called a servant — is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant 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。
with a price ye were bought, become not servants 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。
each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain 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。
And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness 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。
I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man that the matter be thus: —
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。
Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not 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 and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and 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、
And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened — that both those having wives may be as 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 not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as 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 this world, as not using [it] up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.
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、
And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall 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。
and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the 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 have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the 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。
And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,
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。
and if any one doth think [it] to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin — let him 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。
And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart — not having necessity — and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart — to keep his own virgin — doth 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 that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth 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 hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, 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。
and she is happier if she may so remain — according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.
