テモテへの手紙第一 6
1 おほよそ軛の下にありて奴隷たる者は、おのれの主人を全く尊ぶべき者とすべし。これ神の名と教との譏られざらん爲なり。
Let those who are under the yoke as slaves esteem their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teachings be not blasphemed.
2 信者たる主人を有てる者は、その兄弟なるに因りて之を輕んぜず、反つて彌 増々これに事ふべし。その益を受くる主人は信者にして愛せらるる者なればなり。汝これらの事を教へかつ勧めよ。
Those whose masters are Christian believers must not treat them with disrespect, because they are brothers; nay, rather slave for them the better because those who get the benefit of their services are believing and beloved. Continue to teach and preach this.
3 もし異なる教を傳へて、健全なる言すなはち我らの主イエス・キリストの言と、敬虔にかなふ教とを肯はぬ者あらば、
If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion,
4 その人は傲慢にして何をも知らず、ただ議論と言爭とにのみ耽るなり、之によりて嫉妬・爭鬪・惡しき念おこり、
he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,
5 また心 腐りて眞理をはなれ、敬虔を利 益の道とおもふ者の爭論おこるなり。
and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.
6 されど足ることを知りて敬虔を守る者は、大なる利 益を得るなり。
Now godliness with contentment is truly gainful;
7 我らは何をも携へて世に來らず、また何をも携へて世を去ること能はざればなり。
for we have brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out!
8 ただ衣食あらば足れりとせん。
So if we have food and shelter, let us be content with that.
9 されど富まんと欲する者は、誘惑と羂、また人を滅亡と沈淪とに溺らす愚にして害ある各樣の慾に陷るなり。
Those who desire to be rich fall into the snares of temptation and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 それ金を愛するは諸般の惡しき事の根なり、ある人々これを慕ひて信仰より迷ひ、さまざまの痛をもて自ら己を刺しとほせり。
For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.
11 神の人よ、なんぢは此 等のことを避けて、義と敬虔と信仰と愛と忍耐と柔和とを追ひ求め、
But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.
Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. (aiōnios g166)
13 われ凡ての物を生かしたまふ神のまへ、及びポンテオ・ピラトに向ひて善き言明をなし給ひしキリスト・イエスの前にて汝に命ず。
In the presence of God who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus who bore witness to the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
14 汝われらの主イエス・キリストの現れたまふ時まで汚點なく責むべき所なく、誡命を守れ。
I charge you, keep your commission spotless and irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 時いたらば幸福なる唯一の君主、もろもろの王の王、もろもろの主の主、これを顯し給はん。
For in his own good time this will be brought about by that blessed and only potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords,
who alone possesses immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. (aiōnios g166)
Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use. (aiōn g165)
18 善をおこなひ、善き業に富み、惜みなく施し、分け與ふることを喜び、
Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,
19 かくて己のために善き基を蓄へ、未來の備をなして眞の生命を捉ふることを爲よと。
laying up right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order that they may obtain the Life which is life indeed.
20 テモテよ、なんぢ委ねられたる事を守り、妄なる虚しき物語、また僞りて知識と稱ふる反對論を避けよ。
O, Timothy, guard the treasure which is committed to you. Shun the profane babblings and contradictions of the falsely called "knowledge"
21 ある人々この知識を裝ひて信仰より外れたり。願はくは御惠なんじと偕に在らんことを。
which some professing have erred from the faith. Grace be with you.
