テサロニケ人への手紙第一 2
1 兄弟よ、我らの汝らに到りしことの空しからざりしは、汝ら自ら知る。
For, yourselves, know, brethren, our entrance which was unto you—that it hath not proved void;
2 前に我らは汝らの知るごとく、ピリピにて苦難と侮辱とを受けたれど、我らの神に頼りて大なる紛爭のうちに、憚らず神の福音を汝らに語れり。
But, though we had previously suffered, and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the glad-message of God with much conflict.
3 我らの勸は、迷より出でず、汚穢より出でず、詭計を用ひず、
For, our exhortation, is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile,
4 神に嘉せられて福音を委ねられたる者なれば、人を喜ばせんとせず、我らの心を鑒たまふ神を喜ばせ奉つらんとして語るなり。
But, even as we have been approved by God, to be entrusted with the glad-message, so, we speak, —not as, unto men, giving pleasure, but unto God—who proveth our hearts.
5 我らは汝らの知るごとく何時にても諂諛の言を用ひず、事によせて慳貪をなさず（神これを證し給ふ）
For neither at any time were we found, using words of flattery, —even as ye know, nor a pretext for greed—God, is witness!
6 キリストの使徒として重んぜらるべき者なれども、汝らにも他の者にも人よりは譽を求めず、
Nor, of men, seeking glory—either from you, or from others, though we could have assumed, dignity, as Apostles of Christ;
7 汝らの中にありて優しきこと、母の己が子を育てやしなふ如くなりき。
But we became gentle in your midst, —as though, a nursing mother, had been cherishing her own children:
8 かく我らは汝らを戀ひ慕ひ、なんぢらは我らの愛する者となりたれば、啻に神の福音のみならず、我らの生命をも與へんと願へり。
Thus, yearning after you, we could have been well-pleased to impart unto you—not only the glad-message of God, but, our own lives also, —because, very dear to us, had ye become.
9 兄弟よ、なんぢらは我らの勞と苦難とを記憶す、われらは汝らの中の一人をも累はすまじとて、夜晝 工をなし、勞しつつ福音を宣傳へたり。
For ye remember, brethren, our toil and hardship: night and day, working, so as not to be a burden unto any of you, we proclaimed unto you the glad-message of God,
10 また信じたる汝 等にむかひて、如何に潔く正しく責むべき所なく行ひしかは、汝らも證し神も證し給ふなり。
Ye, are witnesses—God also, how kindly and righteously and blamelessly, unto you who were believing, we were found to behave;
11 汝らは知る、我らが父のその子に對するごとく各人に對し、
Even as ye know how, unto each one of you, we were as a father unto his own children, consoling you, and soothing, and calling to witness, —
12 御國と榮光とに招きたまふ神の心に適ひて歩むべきことを勸め、また勵まし、また諭したるを。
To the end ye might be walking in a manner worthy of God, who is calling you unto his own kingdom and glory,
13 かくてなほ我ら神に感謝して巳まざるは、汝らが神の言を我らより聞きし時、これを人の言とせず、神の言として受けし事なり。これは誠に神の言にして、汝ら信ずる者のうちに働くなり。
And, for this cause, we, are also giving thanks unto God unceasingly, that, when ye received a spoken word from us—which was God’s, ye welcomed it—not as a human word, but, even as it truly is, a divine word, —which is also inwardly working itself in you who believe.
14 兄弟よ、汝らはユダヤに於けるキリスト・イエスにある神の教會に效ふ者となれり、彼らのユダヤ人に苦しめられたる如く、汝らも己が國人に苦しめられたるなり。
For, ye, became, imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea, in Christ Jesus, in that, the same things, ye, also suffered by your own fellow-countrymen, even as, they, also by the Jews:
15 ユダヤ人は主イエスをも預言者をも殺し、我らを追ひ出し、
Who have both slain the, Lord, Jesus—and the prophets, and, us, have persecuted, and, unto God, are displeasing, and, unto all men, are contrary, —
16 我らが異邦人に語りて救を得させんとするを拒み、神を悦ばせず、かつ萬民に逆ひ、かくして常に己が罪を充すなり。而して神の怒はかれらに臨みてその極に至れり。
Hindering us from speaking, unto the nations, that they might be saved, to the filling up of their own sins, continually; but anger hath overtaken them at length.
17 兄弟よ、われら心は離れねど、顏にて暫時なんぢらと離れ居れば、汝らの顏を見んことを愈々 切に願ひて、
Now, we, brethren, having been bereaved away from you, for the season of an hour, —in presence, not in heart, gave more abundant diligence, your face, to behold, with much longing;
18 （我パウロは一度ならず再度までも）なんぢらに到らんと爲たれど、サタンに妨げられたり。
Wherefore, we desired to come unto you—even, I, Paul, both once and again, —and, Satan, thwarted us.
19 我らの主イエスの來り給ふとき、御前における我らの希望、また喜悦、また誇の冠冕は誰ぞ、汝らならずや。
For what shall be our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Shall not even, ye, before our Lord Jesus, in his Presence?
20 實に汝らは我らの光榮、我らの喜悦なり。
Ye, in fact, are our glory and joy.
