コリント人への手紙第二 7
1 されば愛する者よ、我らかかる約束を得たれば、肉と靈との汚穢より全く己を潔め、神を畏れてその清潔を成就すべし。
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 我らを受け容れよ、われら誰にも不義をなしし事なく、誰をも害ひし事なく、誰をも掠めし事なし。
Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
3 わが斯く言ふは、汝らを咎めんとにあらず、そは我が既に言へる如く、汝らは我らの心にありて、共に死に共に生くればなり。
I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
4 我なんぢらを信ずること大なり、また汝 等をもて誇とすること大なり、我は慰安にみち、凡ての患難の中にも喜悦あふるるなり。
Great is my boldness of speech towards you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
5 マケドニヤに到りしとき、我らの身はなほ聊かも平安を得ずして、樣々の患難に遭ひ、外には分爭、内には恐懼ありき。
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
6 然れど哀なる者を慰むる神は、テトスの來るによりて我らを慰め給へり。
Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
7 唯その來るに因りてのみならず、彼が汝らによりて得たる慰安をもて慰め給へり。即ち汝らの我を慕ふこと、歎くこと、我に對して熱心なることを我らに告ぐるによりて、我ますます喜べり。
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
8 われ書をもて汝らを憂ひしめたれども悔いず、その書の汝らを暫く憂ひしめしを見て、前には悔いたれども今は喜ぶ。
For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.
9 わが喜ぶは汝らの憂ひしが故にあらず、憂ひて悔改に至りし故なり。汝らは神に從ひて憂ひたれば、我等より聊かも損を受けざりき。
I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
10 それ神にしたがふ憂は、悔なきの救を得るの悔改を生じ、世の憂は死を生ず。
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
11 視よ、汝らが神に從ひて憂ひしことは、如何ばかりの奮勵・辯明・憤激・恐懼・愛慕・熱心・罪を責むる心などを汝らの中に生じたりしかを。汝 等かの事に就きては全く潔きことを表せり。
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defence, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
12 されば前に書を汝らに書き贈りしも、不義をなしたる人の爲にあらず、また不義を受けたり人の爲にあらず、我らに對する汝らの奮勵の、神の前にて汝らに顯れん爲なり。
So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
13 この故に我らは慰安を得たり。慰安を得たる上にテトスの喜悦によりて更に喜べり。そは彼の心なんぢら一同によりて安んぜられたればなり。
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
14 われ曩に彼の前に汝らに就きて誇りたれど恥づることなし、我らが汝らに語りし事のみな誠實なりし如く、テトスの前に誇りし事もまた誠實となれり。
For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
15 彼は汝 等みな從順にして畏れ戰き、己を迎へしことを思ひ出して、心を汝らに寄すること増々 深し。
His affection is more abundantly towards you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
16 われ凡ての事に汝らに就きて心 強きを喜ぶ。
I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.
