テサロニケ人への手紙第二 1
1 パウロ、シルワノ、テモテ、書を我らの父なる神および主イエス・キリストに在るテサロニケ人の教會に贈る。
[I], Paul, [am writing this letter]. Silas and Timothy [are with me. We are sending this letter] to [you]. You are the congregation [of God’s people] in Thessalonica [city]. You belong to God our Father, and you belong to Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 願はくは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。
[We pray that] God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord, [will continue to] act kindly toward you and [will continue to cause you to have inner] peace.
3 兄弟よ、われら汝 等につきて常に神に感謝せざるを得ず、これ當然の事なり。そは汝らの信仰おほいに加はり、各自みな互の愛を厚くしたればなり。
[Our] fellow believers, we thank God very frequently [HYP] for you because we believers ought [to thank God for each other, and] specifically it is appropriate/right [that we should thank God for you. We thank him] that you are trusting in [the Lord Jesus] more and more, and that each one of you is loving [each of] the others more and more.
4 されば我らは、汝らが忍べる凡ての迫害と患難との中にありて保ちたる忍耐と信仰とを、神の諸 教會の間に誇る。
As a result, we keep proudly telling about you to [other] congregations who [worship] God. [Specifically, we tell them] that you are being steadfast and that you [continue] believing [in the Lord Jesus], even though you are frequently suffering [DOU] as a result of people causing you trouble.
5 これ神の正しき審判の兆にして、汝らが神の國に相應しき者とならん爲なり。今その御國のために苦難を受く。
[Your being steadfast] (shows/indicates to) [us] clearly that God will judge [all people] justly. [Specifically, he] will publicly declare that you are worthy [as his people to be in] that place where he will rule [forever, because] you also are suffering as a result of [telling others about letting] God rule your lives.
6 汝らに患難を加ふる者に患難をもて報い、患難を受くる汝らに、我らと共に安息をもて報い給ふは、神の正しき事なり。
[God will certainly cause trouble for] those people who are troubling you, because he [considers] that it is just that he should punish such people for doing that to you.
7 即ち主イエス焔の中にその能力の御使たちと共に天より顯れ、
He also [considers] that it is the right thing to do to reward you who are being troubled, by (giving you relief/causing your suffering to end). He will do that for both you and us when our Lord Jesus will descend from heaven, together with his powerful angels and with blazing fire.
8 神を知らぬ者と我らの主イエスの福音に服はぬ者とに報いをなし給ふとき、
[Then he will] punish those people who do not [want to] know him and [those] who refuse to heed the message about our Lord Jesus.
[Our Lord Jesus] will forbid them from ever coming near to him and near to the glory which he has [because he is so] powerful (OR, the glory that is manifested by his power). He will cause those people to suffer forever. (aiōnios g166)
10 その時は主おのが聖徒によりて崇められ、凡ての信ずる者（なんぢらも我らの證を信じたる者なり）によりて讃められんとて來りたまふ日なり。
[The Lord Jesus] will do this when he comes [back from heaven] at the time [that God has decided]. As a result, all we who are his people will praise him because of [what he has done for his own] people, and all we believers will marvel at our Lord because of [what he has done. And you will be there, too], because you believed what we testified to you.
11 これに就きて我ら常に汝らのために祈るは、我らの神の汝 等をして召に適ふ者となし、能力をもて汝らの凡て善に就ける願と信仰の業とを成就せしめ給はんことなり。
In order that you might [praise Jesus like this], we are also praying very frequently [HYP] for you. We pray that [you will be able to show] our God that you are worthy [to receive] that which he chose [you to receive]. We pray also that he would powerfully enable you to do good in every way that you desire, and that he would also enable you to do powerfully every [good] thing [that you do because] you believe [in Jesus Christ].
12 これ我らの神および主イエス・キリストの惠によりて、我らの主イエスの御名の汝らの中に崇められ、又なんぢらも彼に在りて崇められん爲なり。
[We pray this because we want] you to praise our Lord Jesus, and we want him to honor you. This will happen because God, whom we [worship/serve], and our Lord Jesus Christ will keep acting kindly [toward you] in ways that you do not deserve.
