テサロニケ人への手紙第一 1

1 パウロ、シルワノ、テモテ、書を父なる神および主イエス・キリストにあるテサロニケ人の教會に贈る。願はくは恩惠と平安と汝らに在らんことを。

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 われら祈のときに汝らを憶えて、常に汝ら衆人のために神に感謝す。

We always give thanks to God for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

3 これ汝らが信仰のはたらき、愛の勞苦、主イエス・キリストに對する望の忍耐を、我らの父なる神の前に絶えず念ふに因りてなり。

remembering without ceasing, in the presence of our God and Father, your work of faith, your labor of love, and your endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

4 神に愛せらるる兄弟よ、また汝らの選ばれたることを知るに因りてなり。

For we know, brothers beloved by God, that you have been chosen,

5 それ我らの福音の汝らに至りしは、言にのみ由らず、能力と聖 靈と大なる確信とに由れり。且われらが汝らの中にありて汝らの爲に如何なる行爲をなししかは、汝らの知る所なり。

because our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction. You know what sort of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

6 かくて汝らは大なる患難のうちにも、聖 靈による喜悦をもて御言をうけ、我ら及び主に效ふ者となり、

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you received the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit.

7 而してマケドニヤ及びアカヤに在る凡ての信者の模範となれり。

As a result you have become examples to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

8 それは主のことば汝 等より出でて、啻にマケドニヤ及びアカヤに響きしのみならず、神に對する汝らの信仰のことは諸方に弘りたるなり。されば之に就きては何をも語るに及ばず。

For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but reports of your faith in God have gone out everywhere, so that we have no need to say anything about it.

9 人々 親しく我らが汝らの中に入りし状を告げ、また汝らが偶像を棄てて神に歸し、活ける眞の神に事へ、

For the people themselves report what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned away from idols to serve the living and true God,

10 神の死人の中より甦へらせ給ひし御子、すなはち我らを來らんとする怒より救ひ出すイエスの、天より降りたまふを待ち望むことを告ぐればなり。

as you wait for his Son Jesus to return from heaven, whom God raised from the dead, and who rescues us from the coming wrath.