コリント人への手紙第二 10
1 汝らに對し面前にては謙だり、離れゐては勇ましき我パウロ、自らキリストの柔和と寛容とをもて汝らに勸む。
Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Messiah, I who in your presence am lowly amongst you, but being absent am bold towards you.
2 我らを肉に從ひて歩むごとく思ふ者あれば、斯かる者に對しては雄々しくせんと思へど、願ふ所は我が汝らに逢ふとき斯く勇ましくせざらん事なり。
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
3 我らは肉にありて歩めども、肉に從ひて戰はず。
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
4 それ我らの戰爭の武器は肉に屬するにあらず、神の前には城砦を破るほどの能力あり、我等はもろもろの論説を破り、
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
5 神の示教に逆ひて建てたる凡ての櫓を毀ち、凡ての念を虜にしてキリストに服はしむ。
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Messiah,
6 且なんぢらの從順の全くならん時、すべての不 從順を罰せんと覺悟せり。
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
7 汝らは外貌のみを見る、若し人みづからキリストに屬する者と信ぜば、己がキリストに屬する如く、我らも亦キリストに屬する者なることを更に考ふべし。
Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Messiah’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Messiah’s, so we also are Messiah’s.
8 假令われ汝らを破る爲ならずして建つる爲に、主が我らに賜ひたる權威につきて誇ること稍 過ぐとも恥とはならじ。
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
9 われ書をもて汝らを嚇すと思はざれ。
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
10 彼らは言ふ『その書は重くかつ強し、その逢ふときの容貌は弱く、言は鄙し』と。
For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
11 斯くのごとき人は思ふべし。我らが離れをる時おくる書の言のごとく、逢ふときの行爲も亦 然るを。
Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
12 我らは己を譽むる人と敢へて竝び、また較ぶる事をせず、彼らは己によりて己を度り、己をもて己に較ぶれば智なき者なり。
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
13 我らは範圍を踰えて誇らず、神の我らに分ち賜ひたる範圍にしたがひて誇らん。その範圍は汝らに及べり。
But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
14 汝らに及ばぬ者のごとく範圍を踰えて身を延すに非ず、キリストの福音を傳へて汝らにまで到れるなり。
For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Messiah,
15 我らは己が範圍を踰えて他の人の勞を誇らず、唯なんぢらの信仰の彌増すにより、我らの範圍に循ひて汝らのうちに更に大ならんことを望む。
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labours, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
16 これ他の人の範圍に既に備りたるものを誇らず、汝らを踰えて外の處に福音を宣傳へん爲なり。
so as to proclaim the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
17 誇る者は主によりて誇るべし。
But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
18 そは是とせらるるは己を譽むる者にあらず、主の譽め給ふ者なればなり。
For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
