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。
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of apostle 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。
My defense to those who examine me is this.
4 我らは飮食する權なきか。
Have we no right to eat and to 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 we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 ただ我とバルナバとのみ工を止むる權なきか。
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
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? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not drink from the flock's 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。
Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
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、
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
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。
or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having a share.
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 we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
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 partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
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。
Do you not know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
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 Good News should live from the Good News.
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 I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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。
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the Good News.
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 will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
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 reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
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。
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain 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 became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
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 who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
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。
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I may by all means 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。
Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of 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 those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, 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。
Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
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。
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not 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 beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
