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。
Now, my fellow believers, [I want to write] about some other matters. Because we all have a close relationship with the Lord Jesus, we(exc) strongly urge you [DOU] to live in a way that pleases God. We taught you to do that, and you know that we lived that way as a result of what the Lord Jesus [told us]. We know that you are conducting your lives that way, but [we strongly urge] that you do that even more.
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。
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、
God wants you to live pure lives that will show that you completely belong to him. He wants you to avoid doing any sexually immoral acts (OR, avoid being sexually immoral in any way).
4 各人おのが妻を得て、潔くかつ貴くし、
[That is, he wants] each one of you to know how to control your own sexual desires [EUP]. He wants you to live pure lives that all people will see as good.
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、
You must not lustfully desire [to do] immoral acts as unbelievers [MTY] [do] who do not obey 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。
[God wants each one of you to control your sexual desires, in order that] no one of you sin against your fellow believer and take advantage of him or her by doing things like that. Remember that we strongly warned you previously [DOU] that the Lord [Jesus] will punish all [people who do] sexually immoral acts.
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。
When God chose us [believers], he did not want us to [be people who] behave in a sexually immoral way. On the contrary, [he wants us] to be [people who] behave in a morally pure way.
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。
So I warn you that those who disregard [this teaching] of mine [are] not just disregarding me. On the contrary, [they are disregarding] God, [because God commanded it. Remember that] God sent his Spirit, who is holy, [to live] in you!
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、
[I want to urge you] again [that you should] love [your] fellow believers [MET]. You do not really need that [anyone] write to you about that, because God has already taught you [how] to love each other,
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、
and because you already are [showing that you love] your fellow believers [HYP] [who live] in other places [in your province] of Macedonia. Nevertheless, my fellow believers, we urge you to [love each other] even 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。
[We urge you] also to eagerly strive/try to mind your own affairs and to not meddle/interfere with the affairs of others. We urge you also to work at your own occupations/jobs [to earn what you need to live]. Remember that we taught you previously to live like that.
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。
If you do these things, unbelievers will acknowledge/see that you behave decently/properly, and you will not have to depend on others [to] ([supply/give to you]) [what you need].
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。
My fellow believers, we also want you to understand well [LIT] [what will happen] to our fellow believers [who now] are dead [EUP]. [You must not be/do like] the unbelievers. They [grieve deeply for people who die because] they do not confidently expect [people to live again after they die].
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。
We [believers] know that it is true that Jesus died and that he came back [to life] again. So [we also know well that] when Jesus returns, God [will cause] those [believers] who died [EUP] [to live again] and to come with [Jesus].
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。
[I write this] because the Lord [Jesus] revealed [to me] what I am now telling you. [Some of you may think that] when the Lord [Jesus] comes back, he will consider that we [believers] who are still living will be superior to those [believers] who have died [EUP], because [we will meet Jesus first. That is certainly not true]!
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、
It is the Lord [Jesus] himself who will descend from heaven. [When he comes down, he] will command all of [us believers to rise from their graves]. The chief angel will shout [loudly], and [another angel] will blow a trumpet for God. Then (OR, As a result), the first thing that will happen is that the people who [trusted] in Christ before they died will live again.
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。
After that, [God] will powerfully take up into the clouds all of us [believers] who are still living [on this earth]. [He will take us] and those [other believers who have died], in order that [we all] might together meet/welcome the Lord [Jesus] in the sky. As a result of that, we [all] will be with him forever.
18 されば此 等の言をもて互に相 慰めよ。
Because [all this is true], encourage/comfort each other by reminding each other of this teaching.
