コリント人への手紙第一 9
1 我は自主の者ならずや、使徒にあらずや、我らの主イエスを見しにあらずや、汝らは主に在りて我が業ならずや。
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 われ他の人には使徒ならずとも汝らには使徒なり。汝らは主にありて我が使徒たる職の印なればなり。
Even if I am not an apostle to others, to you at least I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 われを審く者に對する我が辯明は斯くのごとし。
This is my reply to my critics.
4 我らは飮食する權なきか。
Have I no right to claim food and drink?
5 我らは他の使徒たち主の兄弟たち及びケパのごとく、姉妹たる妻を携ふる權なきか。
Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Peter do?
6 ただ我とバルナバとのみ工を止むる權なきか。
Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?
7 誰か己の財にて兵卒を務むる者あらんや。誰か葡萄畑を作りてその果を食はぬ者あらんや。誰か群を牧ひてその乳を飮まぬ者あらんや。
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? What farmer ever plants a vineyard and his flock and does not taste the milk?
8 我ただ人の思にのみ由りて此 等のことを言はんや、律法も亦かく言ふにあらずや。
Am I saying this on human authority only, or does not the Law also say the same?
9 モーセの律法に『穀物を碾す牛には口籠を繋くべからず』と録したり。神は牛のために慮ぱかり給へるか、
Yea, in the Law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while he is treading out the grain.
10 また專ら我等のために之を言ひ給ひしか、然り、我らのために録されたり。それ耕す者は望をもて耕し、穀物をこなす者は之に與る望をもて碾すべきなり。
Is it the oxen that God is thinking about, or is it really said for our sakes? It was written for us; because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher in hope of getting a share of the crop.
11 もし我ら靈の物を汝らに蒔きしならば、汝らの肉の物を刈り取るは過分ならんや。
If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?
12 もし他の人なんぢらに對してこの權あらんには、まして我らをや。然れど我等はこの權を用ひざりき。唯キリストの福音に障碍なきやうに一切のことを忍ぶなり。
If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ’s gospel.
13 なんぢら知らぬか、聖なる事を務むる者は宮のものを食し、祭壇に事ふる者は祭壇のものに與るを。
You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?
14 斯くのごとく主もまた福音を宣傳ふる者の福音によりて生活すべきことを定め給へり。
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
15 されど我は此 等のことを一つだに用ひし事なし、また自ら斯くせられんために之を書き贈るにあらず、斯くせられんよりは寧ろ死ぬるを善しとすればなり。誰もわが誇を空しくせざるべし。
But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.
16 われ福音を宣傳ふとも誇るべき所なし、已むを得ざるなり。もし福音を宣傳へずば、我は禍害なるかな。
Proclaiming the gospel gives me no ground of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; woe is me if I preach not the gospel.
17 若しわれ心より之をなさば報を得ん、たとひ心ならずとも我はその務を委ねられたり。
For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.
18 然らば我が報は何ぞ、福音を宣傳ふるに、人をして費なく福音を得しめ、而も福音によりて我が有てる權を用ひ盡さぬこと是なり。
What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
19 われ凡ての人に對して自主の者なれど、更に多くの人を得んために、自ら凡ての人の奴隷となれり。
Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.
20 我ユダヤ人にはユダヤ人の如くなれり、これユダヤ人を得んが爲なり。律法の下にある者には――律法の下に我はあらねど――律法の下にある者の如くなれり。これ律法の下にある者を得んが爲なり。
To the Jews I am become like a Jew, that I may win Jews; to those under the Law, like one under the Law, though I am not under the Law, myself;
21 律法なき者には――われ神に向ひて律法なきにあらず、反つてキリストの律法の下にあれど――律法なき者の如くなれり、これ律法なき者を得んがためなり。
to those outside the Law, as one outside the Law, to win those outside the Law (though I am not outside the law of God, but inside the law of Christ).
22 弱き者には弱き者となれり、これ弱き者を得んためなり。我すべての人には凡ての人の状に從へり、これ如何にもして幾許かの人を救はんためなり。
I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.
23 われ福音のために凡ての事をなす、これ我も共に福音に與らん爲なり。
And I am doing it all for the gospel’s sake, that I may become a copartner in it.
24 なんぢら知らぬか、馳場を走る者はみな走れども、褒美を得る者の、ただ一人なるを。汝らも得んために斯く走れ。
Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.
25 すべて勝を爭ふ者は何事をも節し愼む、彼らは朽つる冠冕を得んが爲なれど、我らは朽ちぬ冠冕を得んがために之をなすなり。
Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.
26 斯く我が走るは目標なきが如きにあらず、我が拳鬪するは空を撃つが如きにあらず。
For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,
27 わが體を打ち擲きて之を服從せしむ。恐らくは他人に宣傳へて自ら棄てらるる事あらん。
but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.
