コリント人への手紙第一 1
1 神の御意により召されてイエス・キリストの使徒となれるパウロ及び兄弟ソステネ、
To the church of God in Corinth, to those who have been consecrated by union with Christ Jesus and called to become his people, and also to all, wherever they may be, who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ – their Master and ours,
2 書をコリントに在る神の教會、即ちいづれの處にありても、我らの主、ただに我等のみならず彼らの主なるイエス・キリストの名を呼び求むる者とともに、聖徒となるべき召を蒙り、キリスト・イエスに在りて潔められたる汝らに贈る。
from Paul, who has been called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and from Sosthenes, our fellow follower of the Lord.
3 願はくは我らの父なる神および主イエス・キリストより賜ふ恩惠と平安と汝らに在らんことを。
May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.
4 われ汝らがキリスト・イエスに在りて神より賜はりし恩惠に就きて、常に神に感謝す。
I always thank God for you. I thank him for the blessing bestowed on you in Christ Jesus.
5 汝らはキリストに在りて、諸般のこと即ち凡ての言と凡ての悟とに富みたればなり。
For through union with him you were enriched in every way – in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the truth;
6 これキリストの證なんぢらの中に堅うせられたるに因る。
and so became yourselves a confirmation of my testimony to the Christ.
7 斯く汝らは凡ての賜物に缺くる所なくして、我らの主イエス・キリストの現れ給ふを待てり。
There is no gift in which you are deficient, while waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
8 彼は汝らを終まで堅うして、我らの主イエス・キリストの日に責むべき所なからしめ給はん。
And God himself will strengthen you to the end, so that at the day of our Lord Jesus Christ you may be found blameless.
9 汝らを召して其の子われらの主イエス・キリストの交際に入らしめ給ふ神は眞實なる哉。
God will not fail you, and it is he who called you into communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
10 兄弟よ、我らの主イエス・キリストの名に頼りて汝らに勸む、おのおの語るところを同じうし、分爭する事なく、同じ心おなじ念にて全く一つになるべし。
But I appeal to you, my friends, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you profess, and not to allow divisions to exist among you, but to be united – of one mind and of one opinion.
11 わが兄弟よ、クロエの家の者、なんぢらの中に紛爭あることを我に知らせたり。
For I have been informed, my friends, by the members of Chloe’s household, that party feeling exists among you.
12 即ち汝 等おのおの『我はパウロに屬す』『われはアポロに』『我はケパに』『我はキリストに』と言ふこれなり。
I mean this: that every one of you says either “I follow Paul,” or “I Apollos,” or “I Cephas,” or “I Christ.”
13 キリストは分たるる者ならんや、パウロは汝らの爲に十字架につけられしや、汝らパウロの名に頼りてバプテスマを受けしや。
You have torn the Christ in pieces! Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 我は感謝す、クリスポとガイオとの他には、我なんぢらの中の一人にもバプテスマを施さざりしを。
I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15 是わが名に頼りて汝らがバプテスマを受けしと人の言ふ事なからん爲なり。
so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name.
16 またステパノの家族にバプテスマを施しし事あり、此の他には我バプテスマを施しし事ありや知らざるなり。
I baptized also the household of Stephanas. I do not know that I baptized anyone else.
17 そはキリストの我を遣し給へるはバプテスマを施させん爲にあらず、福音を宣傳へしめんとてなり。而して言の智慧をもつてせず、是キリストの十字架の虚しくならざらん爲なり。
My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the good news; not, however, in the language of philosophy, in case the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.
18 それ十字架の言は亡ぶる者には愚なれど、救はるる我らには神の能力なり。
The message of the cross is indeed mere folly to those who are on the path to ruin, but to us who are on the path of salvation it is the power of God.
19 録して、『われ智者の智慧をほろぼし、慧き者のさときを空しうせん』とあればなり。
For scripture says – “I will bring the philosophy of the philosophers to naught, and the shrewdness of the shrewd I will bring to nothing.”
Where is the philosopher? Where the teacher of the Law? Where the disputant of today? Has not God shown the world’s philosophy to be folly? (aiōn g165)
21 世は己の智慧をもて神を知らず（これ神の智慧に適へるなり）この故に神は宣教の愚をもて、信ずる者を救ふを善しとし給へり。
For since the world, in God’s wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the “folly” of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!
22 ユダヤ人は徴を請ひ、ギリシヤ人は智慧を求む。
While Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks study philosophy,
23 されど我らは十字架に釘けられ給ひしキリストを宣傳ふ。これはユダヤ人に躓物となり、異邦人に愚となれど、
we are proclaiming Christ crucified! – to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,
24 召されたる者にはユダヤ人にもギリシヤ人にも、神の能力また神の智慧たるキリストなり。
but to those who have received the call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God!
25 神の愚は人よりも智く、神の弱は人よりも強ければなり。
For God’s “folly” is wiser than people, and God’s “weakness” is stronger than people.
26 兄弟よ、召を蒙れる汝らを見よ、肉によれる智き者おほからず、能力ある者おほからず、貴きもの多からず。
Look at the facts of your call, friends. There are not many among you who are wise, as people reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;
27 されど神は智き者を辱しめんとて世の愚なる者を選び、強き者を辱しめんとて弱き者を選び、
but God chose what the world counts foolish to put its wise to shame, and God chose what the world counts weak to put its strong to shame,
28 有る者を亡さんとて世の卑しきもの、輕んぜらるる者、すなわち無きが如き者を選び給へり。
and God chose what the world counts poor and insignificant – things that to it are unreal – to bring its “realities” to nothing,
29 これ神の前に人の誇る事なからん爲なり。
so that in his presence no one should boast.
30 汝らは神に頼りてキリスト・イエスに在り、彼は神に立てられて我らの智慧と義と聖と救贖とになり給へり。
But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God’s will, became not only our wisdom, but also our righteousness, holiness, and deliverance,
31 これ『誇る者は主に頼りて誇るべし』と録されたる如くならん爲なり。
so that – in the words of scripture – “Whoever boasts should boast of the Lord!”
