テモテへの手紙第一 1
1 我らの救主なる神と我らの希望なるキリスト・イエスとの命によりて、キリスト・イエスの使徒となれるパウロ、
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,
2 書を信仰に由りて我が眞實の子たるテモテに贈る。願はくは父なる神および我らの主キリスト・イエスより賜ふ恩惠と憐憫と平安と、汝に在らんことを。
to Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 我マケドニヤに往きしとき汝に勸めし如く、汝なほエペソに留まり、ある人々に命じて、異なる教を傳ふることなく、
Just as I urged yoʋ when I was going to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that yoʋ may charge certain people not to teach different doctrines
4 昔話と窮りなき系圖とに心を寄する事なからしめよ。此 等のことは信仰に基ける神の經綸の助とならず、反つて議論を生ずるなり。
or to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote disputes rather than the plan of God that operates by faith.
5 命令の目的は清き心と善き良心と僞りなき信仰とより出づる愛にあり。
The goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith.
6 ある人々これらの事より外れて虚しき物語にうつり、
Some have strayed from these and have turned aside to meaningless talk,
7 律法の教師たらんと欲して、反つて其の言ふ所その確證する所を自ら悟らず。
desiring to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
8 律法は道理に循ひて之を用ひば善き者なるを我らは知る。
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully.
9 律法を用ふる者は、律法の正しき人の爲にあらずして、不法のもの、服從せぬもの、敬虔ならぬもの、罪あるもの、潔からぬもの、妄なるもの、父を撃つもの、母を撃つもの、人を殺す者、
We know that the law is not laid down for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers,
10 淫行のもの、男色を行ふもの、人を誘拐すもの、僞るもの、いつはり誓ふ者の爲、そのほか健全なる教に逆ふ凡ての事のために設けられたるを知るべし。
fornicators, homosexuals, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to the sound teaching
11 これは我に委ね給ひし幸福なる神の榮光の福音に循へるなり。
that conforms to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.
12 我に能力を賜ふ我らの主キリスト・イエスに感謝す。
I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, because he considered me to be faithful and appointed me to serve him,
13 われ曩には涜す者、迫害する者、暴行の者なりしに、我を忠實なる者として、この職に任じ給ひたればなり。われ信ぜぬ時に知らずして行ひし故に憐憫を蒙れり。
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man. But I received mercy because I had ignorantly acted in unbelief,
14 而して我らの主の恩惠は、キリスト・イエスに由れる信仰および愛とともに溢るるばかり彌増せり。
and the grace of our Lord abounded to me greatly with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
15 『キリスト・イエス罪人を救はん爲に世に來り給へり』とは、信ずべく正しく受くべき言なり、其の罪人の中にて我は首なり。
This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost sinner, Jesus Christ might show complete patience, making me an example for those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
18 わが子テモテよ、汝を指したる凡ての預言に循ひて、我この命令を汝に委ぬ。これ汝がその預言により、信仰と善き良心とを保ちて、善き戰鬪を戰はん爲なり。
This charge I entrust to yoʋ, Timothy, my child, according to the prophecies once made about yoʋ, so that by them yoʋ may fight the good fight,
19 或 人よき良心を棄てて信仰の破船をなせり。
having faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have shipwrecked their faith.
20 その中にヒメナオとアレキサンデルとあり、彼らに涜すまじきことを學ばせんとて、我これをサタンに付せり。
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.
