テサロニケ人への手紙第一 4
1 されば兄弟よ、終に我ら主イエスによりて汝らに求め、かつ勸む。なんぢら如何に歩みて神を悦ばすべきかを我等より學びし如く、また歩みをる如くに増々 進まんことを。
And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.
2 我らが主イエスに頼りて如何なる命令を與へしかは、汝らの知る所なり。
For ye knowe what commandements we gaue you by the Lord Iesus.
3 それ神の御旨は、なんぢらの潔からんことにして、即ち淫行をつつしみ、
For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,
4 各人おのが妻を得て、潔くかつ貴くし、
That euery one of you should know, how to possesse his vessell in holines and honour,
5 神を知らぬ異邦人のごとく情 慾を放縱にすまじきを知り、
And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 かかる事によりて兄弟を欺き、また掠めざらんことなり。凡て此 等のことを行ふ者に主の報し給ふは、わが既に汝らに告げ、かつ證せしごとし。
That no man oppresse or defraude his brother in any matter: for the Lord is auenger of all such thinges, as we also haue tolde you before time, and testified.
7 神の我らを招き給ひしは、汚穢を行はしめん爲にあらず、潔からしめん爲なり。
For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.
8 この故に之を拒む者は人を拒むにあらず、汝らに聖 靈を與へたまふ神を拒むなり。
Hee therefore that despiseth these thinges, despiseth not man, but God who hath euen giuen you his holy Spirit.
9 兄弟の愛につきては汝らに書きおくるに及ばず。汝らは互に相 愛する事を親しく神に教へられ、
But as touching brotherly loue, ye neede not that I write vnto you: for ye are taught of God to loue one another.
10 また既にマケドニヤ全國に在るすべての兄弟を愛するに因りてなり。されど兄弟よ、なんぢらに勸む。ますます之を行ひ、
Yea, and that thing verily yee doe vnto all the brethren, which are throughout all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more,
11 我らが前に命ぜしことく力めて安靜にし、己の業をなし、手づから働け。
And that ye studie to be quiet, and to meddle with your owne busines, and to worke with your owne handes, as we commanded you,
12 これ外の人に對して正しく行ひ、また自ら乏しきことなからん爲なり。
That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.
13 兄弟よ、既に眠れる者のことに就きては、汝らの知らざるを好まず、希望なき他の人のごとく歎かざらん爲なり。
I would not, brethren, haue you ignorant concerning them which are a sleepe, that ye sorow not euen as other which haue no hope.
14 我らの信ずる如く、イエスもし死にて甦へり給ひしならば、神はイエスによりて眠に就きたる者を、イエスと共に連れきたり給ふべきなり。
For if we beleeue that Iesus is dead, and is risen, euen so them which sleepe in Iesus, will God bring with him.
15 われら主の言をもて汝らに言はん、我等のうち主の來りたまふ時に至るまで生きて存れる者は、既に眠れる者に決して先だたじ。
For this say we vnto you by the worde of the Lord, that we which liue, and are remayning in the comming of the Lord, shall not preuent them which sleepe.
16 それ主は、號令と御使の長の聲と神のラッパと共に、みづから天より降り給はん。その時キリストにある死人まづ甦へり、
For the Lord himselfe shall descende from heauen with a shoute, and with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 後に生きて存れる我らは、彼らと共に雲のうちに取り去られ、空中にて主を迎へ、斯くていつまでも主と偕に居るべし。
Then shall we which liue and remaine, be caught vp with them also in the clouds, to meete the Lord in the ayre: and so shall we euer be with the Lord.
18 されば此 等の言をもて互に相 慰めよ。
Wherefore, comfort your selues one another with these wordes.
