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1 イエス・キリストの使徒ペテロ、書をポント、ガラテヤ、カパドキヤ、アジヤ、ピテニヤに散りて宿れる者、
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 即ち父なる神の預じめ知り給ふところに隨ひて、御靈の潔により柔順ならんため、イエス・キリストの血の灑を受けんために選ばれたる者に贈る。願はくは恩惠と平安と汝らに増さんことを。
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
3 讃むべきかな、我らの主イエス・キリストの父なる神、その大なる憐憫に隨ひ、イエス・キリストの死人の中より甦へり給へることに由り、我らを新に生れしめて生ける望を懷かせ、
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 汝らの爲に天に蓄へある、朽ちず汚れず萎まざる嗣業を繼がしめ給へり。
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
5 汝らは終のときに顯れんとて備りたる救を得んために、信仰によりて神の力に護らるるなり。
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 この故に汝ら今しばしの程さまざまの試煉によりて憂へざるを得ずとも、なほ大に喜べり。
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
7 汝らの信仰の驗は、壞つる金の火にためさるるよりも貴くして、イエス・キリストの現れ給ふとき譽と光榮と尊貴とを得べきなり。
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
8 汝らイエスを見しことなけれど之を愛し、今 見ざれども之を信じて、言ひがたく、かつ光榮ある喜悦をもて喜ぶ。
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
9 これ信仰の極、すなはち靈魂の救を受くるに因る。
receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 汝らの受くべき恩惠を預言したる預言者たちは、この救につきて具に尋ね査べたり。
Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
11 即ち彼らは己が中に在すキリストの靈の、キリストの受くべき苦難および其の後の榮光を預じめ證して、何時のころ如何なる時を示し給ひしかを査べたり。
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow them.
12 彼 等はその勤むるところ己のためにあらず、汝らの爲なることを默示によりて知れり。即ち天より遣され給へる聖 靈によりて福音を宣ぶる者どもの、汝らに傳へたる所にして、御使たちも之を懇ろに視んと欲するなり。
To them it was revealed that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
13 この故に、なんぢら心の腰に帶し、愼みてイエス・キリストの現れ給ふときに、與へられんとする恩惠を疑はずして望め。
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
14 從順なる子 等の如くして、前の無知なりし時の慾に效はず、
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
15 汝らを召し給ひし聖者に效ひて、自ら凡ての行状に潔かれ。
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior,
16 録して『われ聖なれば、汝らも聖なるべし』とあればなり。
because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
17 また偏ることなく各人の業に隨ひて審きたまふ者を父と呼ばば、畏をもて世に寓る時を過せ。
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
18 なんぢらが先祖たちより傳はりたる虚しき行状より贖はれしは、銀や金のごとき朽つる物に由るにあらず、
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
19 瑕なく汚點なき羔羊の如きキリストの貴き血に由ることを知ればなり。
but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,
20 彼は世の創の前より預じめ知られたまひしが、この末の世に現れ給へり。
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
21 これは彼を死人の中より甦へらせて之に榮光を與へ給ひし神を、彼によりて信ずる汝らの爲なり、この故に汝らの信仰と希望とは神に由れり。
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 なんぢら眞理に從ふによりて靈魂をきよめ、僞りなく兄弟を愛するに至りたれば、心より熱く相 愛せよ。
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. (aiōn g165)
24 『人はみな草のごとく、その光榮はみな草の花の如し、草は枯れ、花は落つ。
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
