テサロニケ人への手紙第二 3
1 終に言はん、兄弟よ、我らの爲に祈れ、主の言の汝らの中における如く、疾く弘りて崇められん事と、
As for the other matters, [our] fellow believers, pray for us that more and more [people will] hear [PRS] our message [about our] Lord [Jesus]. Pray that they will believe this message, as you [have done].
2 われらが無法なる惡人より救はれんこととを祈れ。そは人みな信仰あるに非ざればなり。
Pray also for us that we will be rescued {that God will rescue us} from those very perverse/evil people [here] who [cause us to suffer. Pray like that] because [they and many others] refuse to believe [LIT] [this message].
3 されど神は眞實なれば、汝らを堅うし汝らを護りて、惡しき者より救ひ給はん。
[Remember that our] Lord [Jesus] is trustworthy! [So we are sure that] he will cause you to continue to be steadfast. [We are also sure that] he will protect you from [Satan], the evil one (OR, from evil).
4 かくて我らの命ずることを汝らが今も行ひ、後もまた行はんことを主によりて信ずるなり。
[Because of your close relationship with our] Lord [Jesus], we are confident that you are obeying what we have commanded you, and we are confident that you will obey what we are commanding [you in this letter].
5 願はくは主なんぢらの心を、神の愛とキリストの忍耐とに導き給はんことを。
[We pray that our] Lord [Jesus] would enable you to continue [knowing] that God loves you. [We pray] also that Christ will cause you to continue [being] steadfast (OR, being steadfast as he [was steadfast]).
6 兄弟よ、我らの主イエス・キリストの名によりて汝らに命ず、我等より受けし傳に從はずして妄に歩む凡ての兄弟に遠ざかれ。
[Our] fellow believers, we command you, with the authority [MTY] that our Lord Jesus Christ [has given to us], that you stop associating with every fellow believer who is lazy and refuses to work. That is, you must stay away from those who are not [conducting their lives] in the manner that we taught you.
7 如何にして我らに效ふべきかは、汝らの自ら知る所なり。我らは汝らの中にありて妄なる事をせず、
[We tell you this] because you yourselves know that you should [behave] like we [behaved]. We (did not just sit [around] without working/were never lazy) [while we were living] among you.
8 價なしに人のパンを食せず、反つて汝 等のうち一人をも累はさざらんために勞と苦難とをもて、夜晝はたらけり。
Specifically, we did not eat anyone’s food if we did not pay [that person] for it. Instead, we worked very hard ([to support ourselves/to earn the money to buy what we needed]). We worked hard [DOU] during the day and during the night, in order that we would not have to depend on any of you [to supply what we needed].
9 これは權 利なき故にあらず、汝 等をして我らに效はしめん爲に、自ら模範となりたるなり。
We have always had the right [to depend on you for money, but instead we worked hard in order to make ourselves] examples for you, in order that you should behave like we behave.
10 また汝らと偕に在りしとき、人もし働くことを欲せずば食すべからずと命じたりき。
Remember that when we were [there] with you, we kept commanding you that if any [fellow believer] refuses to work, [you should not give] him food to eat.
11 聞く所によれば、汝 等のうちに妄に歩みて何の業をもなさず、徒事にたづさはる者ありと。
[We are commanding the same thing] again now, because someone has told us that some of you are lazy and not working at all, just interfering [with what other people are doing]!
12 我ら斯くのごとき人に、靜に業をなして己のパンを食せんことを、我らの主イエス・キリストに由りて命じかつ勸む。
We command those fellow believers who are not working, and urge [them] by the authority [MTY] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they settle down and (support themselves by working/work to earn money to buy what they need).
13 兄弟よ、なんぢら善を行ひて倦むな。
Fellow believers! Do not ever get tired of doing what is right!
14 もし此の書にいへる我らの言に從はぬ者あらば、その人を認めて交ることをすな、彼みづから恥ぢんためなり。
If any [fellow believer refuses to work] and does not obey what I have written in this letter, ([publicly] identify that person/tell the congregation what that person is doing). Then do not associate with him, in order that he may become ashamed.
15 然れど彼を仇の如くせず、兄弟として訓戒せよ。
Do not think of him as though he was [your] enemy; instead, warn him as [you would warn your other] fellow believers.
16 願はくは平和の主、みづから何時にても凡ての事に平和を汝らに與へ給はんことを。願はくは主なんぢら凡ての者と偕に在さん事を。
[I pray that our] Lord [Jesus] himself, who [gives inner] peace [to his people], will give [inner] peace to you always (and in every situation/whatever happens). 2 Thessalonians 3:16b-18 I [pray that our] Lord [Jesus will continue to] help you all.
17 我パウロ手づから筆を執りて汝らの安否を問ふ。これ我がすべての書の記章なり。わが書けるものは斯くの如し。
Now, having taken the pen from my scribe, I, Paul, am sending this greeting to you as I write this myself [SYN]. I do this in all my letters in order that you may know that it is truly I who have sent this letter. This is how I always end my letters.
18 願はくは我らの主イエス・キリストの恩惠なんぢら凡ての者と偕ならんことを。
I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to act kindly to you all.
