テサロニケ人への手紙第一 3
1 この故に、もはや忍ぶこと能はず、我等のみアテネに留ることに決し、
Wherefore since we could no longer forbare, wee thought it good to remaine at Athens alone,
2 キリストの福音において神の役者たる我らの兄弟テモテを汝らに遣せり。これは汝らを堅うし、また信仰につきて勸め、
And haue sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our labour felow in the Gospel of Christ, to stablish you, and to comfort you touching your faith,
3 この患難によりて動かさるる者の無からん爲なり。患難に遭ふことの我らに定りたるは、汝 等みづから知る所なり。
That no man should be moued with these afflictions: for ye your selues knowe, that we are appointed thereunto.
4 我らが患難に遭ふべきことは、汝らと偕に在りしとき預じめ告げたるが、今 果して汝らの知るごとく然か成れり。
For verily when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulations, euen as it came to passe, and ye knowe it.
5 この故に最早われ忍ぶこと能はず、試むる者の汝らを試みて、我らの勞の空しくならんことを恐れ、なんぢらの信仰を知らんとて人を遣せり。
Euen for this cause, when I could no longer forbeare, I sent him that I might knowe of your faith, lest the tempter had tempted you in any sort, and that our labour had bene in vaine.
6 然るに今テモテ汝らより歸りて、汝らの信仰と愛とにつきて喜ばしき音信を聞かせ、又なんぢら常に我らを懇ろに念ひ、我らに逢はんことを切に望み居るは、我らが汝らに逢はんことを望むに等しと告げたるによりて、
But now lately when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tidings of your faith and loue, and that ye haue good remembrance of vs alwayes, desiring to see vs, as we also do you,
7 兄弟よ、われらは諸般の苦難と患難との中にも、汝らの信仰によりて慰安を得たり。
Therefore, brethren, we had consolation in you, in all our affliction and necessitie through your faith.
8 汝 等もし主に在りて堅く立たば我らは生くるなり。
For nowe are wee aliue, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
9 汝 等につきて我らの神の前によろこぶ大なる喜悦のために、如何なる感謝をか神に献ぐべき。
For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,
10 我らは夜晝 祈りて、汝らの顏を見んことと、汝らの信仰の足らぬ所を補はんこととを切に願ふ。
Night and day, praying exceedingly that wee might see your face, and might accomplish that which is lacking in your faith?
11 願はくは我らの父なる神みづからと我らの主なるイエスと、我らを導きて汝らに到らせ給はんことを。
Nowe God himselfe, euen our Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ, guide our iourney vnto you,
12 願はくは主、なんぢら相 互の愛および凡ての人に對する愛を増し、かつ豐にして、我らが汝らを愛する如くならしめ、
And the Lord increase you, and make you abound in loue one toward another, and towarde all men, euen as we doe toward you:
13 かくして汝らの心を堅うし、我らの主イエスの、凡ての聖徒と偕に來りたまふ時、われらの父なる神の前に潔くして責むべき所なからしめ給はんことを。
To make your hearts stable and vnblameable in holines before God euen our Father, at the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ with all his Saints.
