コリント人への手紙第二 1
1 神の御意によりてイエス・キリストの使徒となれるパウロ及び兄弟テモテ、書をコリントに在る神の教會、ならびにアカヤ全國に在る凡ての聖徒に贈る。
Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
2 願はくは我らの父なる神および主イエス・キリストより賜ふ恩惠と平安と汝らに在らんことを。
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.
3 讃むべき哉、われらの主イエス・キリストの父なる神、即ちもろもろの慈悲の父、一切の慰安の神、
All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement,
4 われらを凡ての患難のうちに慰め、我等をして自ら神に慰めらるる慰安をもて、諸般の患難に居る者を慰むることを得しめ給ふ。
who encourages us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in whatever affliction, by means of the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
5 そはキリストの苦難われらに溢るる如く、我らの慰安も亦キリストによりて溢るればなり。
Because just as the sufferings of the Christ flow over into us, so also our encouraging overflows, through Christ.
6 我ら或は患難を受くるも汝らの慰安と救とのため、或は慰安を受くるも汝らの慰安の爲にして、その慰安は汝らの中に働きて、我らが受くる如き苦難を忍ぶことを得しむるなり。
Now then, if we are afflicted, it is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, that are effective for enduring the same sufferings that we also are suffering
7 かくて汝らが苦難に與るごとく、また慰安にも與ることを知れば、汝らに對する我らの望は堅し。
(yes, our hope concerning you is steadfast); if we are encouraged, it also is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, since we know that you will share in the encouragement just as you do in the sufferings.
8 兄弟よ、我らがアジヤにて遭ひし患難を汝らの知らざるを好まず、すなはち壓せらるること甚だしく、力 耐へがたくして、生くる望を失ひ、
And so, brothers, we do not want you to be in ignorance concerning the affliction that came upon us in Asia: we were under extreme pressure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.
9 心のうちに死を期するに至れり。これ己を頼まずして、死人を甦へらせ給ふ神を頼まん爲なり。
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we not place confidence in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead;
10 神は斯かる死より我らを救ひ給へり、また救ひ給はん。我らは後もなほ救ひ給はんことを望みて神を頼み、
He did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering,
11 汝らも我らの爲に祈をもて助く。これ多くの人の願望によりて賜はる恩惠を、多くの人の感謝するに至らん爲なり。
you also adding your cooperation in prayer, on our behalf; that thanks may be given by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, on your behalf.
12 われら世に在りて殊に汝らに對し、神の清淨と眞實とをもて、また肉の智慧によらず、神の恩惠によりて行ひし事は、我らの良心の證する所にして、我らの誇なり。
Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.
13 我らの書き贈ることは、汝らの讀むところ知る所の他ならず。
For we do not write you any other things than what you can read and understand; and I do hope that you will keep on understanding to the end
14 而して我は汝 等のうち或 者の既に知れる如く、我らの主イエスの日に我らが汝らの誇、なんぢらが我らの誇たるを終まで知らんことを望む。
(as indeed some of you have acknowledged) that we are your boast, just as you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 この確信をもて先づ汝らに到り、再び益を得させ、
It was in this confidence that I was planning to come by you first,
16 かくて汝らを經てマケドニアに往き、マケドニアより更に復なんぢらに到り、而して汝らに送られてユダヤに往かんことを定めたり。
and by you to proceed into Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia (that you might benefit twice), and then to be sent by you on my way to Judea.
17 かく定めたるは浮きたる事ならんや。わが定むるところ肉によりて定め、然り然り、否 々と言ふが如きこと有らんや。
Now then, when I was deciding this, I was not acting frivolously, was I? Or the things I decide, do I decide according to the flesh, so that with me there would be both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
18 神は眞實にて在せば、我らが汝らに對する言も、然りまた否と言ふが如きにあらず。
As God is faithful, our word to you was not “Yes” and “No”,
19 我ら即ちパウロ、シルワノ、テモテが汝らの中に傳へたる神の子キリスト・イエスは、然りまた否と言ふが如き者にあらず、然りと言ふことは彼によりて成りたるなり。
because the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No”. In fact, with Him it has always been “Yes”,
20 神の約束は多くありとも、然りと言ふことは彼によりて成りたれば、彼によりてアァメンあり、我ら神に榮光を歸するに至る。
because all the promises of God in Him are “Yes”; indeed, in Him they are “Amen”, that there be glory to God through us.
21 汝らと共に我らをキリストに堅くし、且われらに膏を注ぎ給ひし者は神なり。
Now He who establishes us together with you into Christ, and who anointed us, is God,
22 神はまた我らに印し、保證として御靈を我らの心に賜へり。
who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 我わが靈魂を賭けて神の證を求む、我がコリントに往くことの遲きは、汝らを寛うせん爲なり。
For my part, I call on God as witness, upon my soul, that it was to spare you that I have not yet returned to Corinth.
24 されど我らは汝らの信仰を掌どる者にあらず、汝らの喜悦を助くる者なり、汝らは信仰によりて立てばなり。
(Not that we have control over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for it is by faith that you stand firm.)
