ヨハネの手紙第二 1
1 長老、書を選ばれたる婦人および其の子供に贈る。われ眞をもて汝らを愛す。啻に我のみならず、凡て眞理を知る者はみな汝らを愛す。
The Elder to the Elect Lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have come to know the truth.
I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever. (aiōn g165)
3 父なる神および父の子イエス・キリストより賜ふ恩惠と憐憫と平安とは、眞と愛との中にて我らと偕にあらん。
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
4 われ汝の子供のうちに、我らが父より誡命を受けし如く、眞理に循ひて歩む者あるを見て甚だ喜べり。
I am greatly rejoiced to find some of your children leading their lives in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.
5 婦人よ、われ今なんぢに願ふは、我らが互に相 愛すべき事なり。これは新しき誡命を書き贈るにあらず、我らが初より有てる誡命なり。
And now I am entreating you, Lady, not as though I were writing some new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.
6 彼の誡命に循ひて歩むは即ち愛なり、汝らが初より聞きしごとく、愛に歩むは即ち誡命なり。
And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.
7 人を惑すもの多く世にいで、イエス・キリストの肉體にて來り給ひしことを言ひ表さず、かかる者は人を惑す者にして、非キリストなり。
I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world, those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
8 なんぢら我らが働きし所を空しくせず、滿ち足れる報を得んために自ら心せよ。
Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward.
9 凡そキリストの教に居らずして、之を越えゆく者は神を有たず、キリストの教にをる者は父と子とを有つなり。
Whoever is going ahead, and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ, does not possess God; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son.
10 人もし此の教を有たずして汝らに來らば、之を家に入るな、安かれと言ふな。
If any one come to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, nor give him any greeting.
11 之に安かれと言ふ者は、その惡しき行爲に與するなり。
For the man who greets him shares in his wicked work.
12 我なほ汝らに書き贈ること多くあれど、紙と墨とにてするを好まず、我らの歡喜を充さんために汝 等にいたり、顏をあわせて語らんことを望む。
I have many things to write to you, but I would not write them with paper and ink. I hope to come to you and to talk with you face to face, so that your joy may be full.
13 選ばれたる汝の姉妹の子供、なんぢに安否を問ふ。
The children of your elect sister send you greeting.
