コリント人への手紙第二 9
1 聖徒に施すことに就きては汝らに書きおくるに及ばず、
There is no need for me to write to you about this ministry of giving to the saints in Jerusalem.
2 我なんぢらの志望あるを知ればなり。その志望につき汝らの事をマケドニヤ人に誇りて、アカヤは既に一年 前に準備をなせりと云へり。かくて汝らの熱心は多くの人を勵ましたり。
For I know how eager you are to help, and I keep boasting about you to the Macedonians, saying that Achaia has been prepared to give since last year; and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
3 されどわれ兄弟たちを遣すは、我が言ひしごとく汝らに準備をなさしめ、之につきて我らの誇りし事の空しくならざらん爲なり。
But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter may not prove to be empty, but that you may be prepared, just as I said you would be.
4 もしマケドニヤ人われと共に來りて汝らの準備なきを見ば、汝らは言ふに及ばず、我らも確信せしによりて恐らくは恥を受けん。
Otherwise, if any of the Macedonians were to come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you) would be ashamed of this confident boasting.
5 この故に兄弟たちを勸めて、先づ汝らに往かしめ、曩に汝らが約束したる慈惠を、吝むが如くせずして、惠む心よりせん爲に預じめ調へしむるは、必要のことと思へり。
So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance your previously announced blessing, so that this gift of yours may be ready as a blessing and not as something you feel forced to do.
6 それ少く播く者は少く刈り、多く播く者は多く刈るべし。
My point is this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7 おのおの吝むことなく、強ひてすることなく、その心に定めし如くせよ。神は喜びて與ふる人を愛し給へばなり。
Each person should give as he decides in his heart, not with sadness or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 神は汝 等をして常に凡ての物に足らざることなく、凡ての善き業に溢れしめんために、凡ての恩惠を溢るるばかり與ふることを得給ふなり。
And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance so that you will always have everything you need to abound in every good work.
As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” (aiōn g165)
10 播く人に種と食するパンとを與ふる者は、汝らにも種をあたへ、且これを殖し、また汝らの義の果を増し給ふべし。
Now may he who provides seed to the sower, and bread for food, also multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness!
11 汝らは一切に富みて吝みなく施すことを得、かくて我らの事により、人々 神に感謝するに至るなり。
May you be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, and through us may your generosity produce thanksgiving to God!
12 此の施濟の務は、ただに聖徒の窮乏を補ふのみならず、充ち溢れて神に對する感謝を多からしむ。
For this ministry of giving is not only providing for the needs of the saints in Jerusalem but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God.
13 即ち彼らは此の務を證據として、汝らがキリストの福音に對する言明に順ふことと、彼らにも凡ての人にも吝みなく施すこととに就きて、神に榮光を歸し、
By their approval of this ministry, the saints in Jerusalem will glorify God because of your submission to the gospel of Christ that you confess, and also because of your generous contribution to them and to all.
14 かつ神の汝らに給ひし優れたる恩惠により、汝らを慕ひて汝 等のために祈らん。
They will pray for you with deep affection because of the surpassing grace of God that is upon you.
15 言ひ盡しがたき神の賜物につきて感謝す。
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
