テモテへの手紙第二 3
1 されど汝これを知れ、末の世に苦しき時きたらん。
[You need to] realize that during the last days [MTY] [before Christ returns, evil people will make] it difficult [for believers to behave as they should].
2 人々おのれを愛する者・金を愛する者・誇るもの・高ぶる者・罵るもの・父 母に逆ふもの・恩を忘るる者・潔からぬ者、
This is because [such evil] people will be habitually loving themselves and loving money. They will habitually boast [about themselves], they will be proud, and will often say bad things [about others. They] will disobey [their] parents. They will not be thankful, nor will they respect [anything that is good].
3 無情なる者・怨を解かぬ者・譏る者・節制なき者・殘刻なる者・善を好まぬ者、
They will not [even] love their own family, nor agree with [anybody] (OR, [they never forgive anyone]). They will tell lies about people. They will not control what they say and do, nor allow anyone to control them. They will not love [anything that is] good.
4 友を賣る者・放縱なる者・傲慢なる者・神よりも快樂を愛する者、
They will (betray others/hand others over to their enemies) and act foolishly. They will be overly/very proud of themselves, and they will love to please themselves instead of loving God.
5 敬虔の貌をとりてその徳を捨つる者とならん、斯かる類の者を避けよ。
[And, although they will] pretend that they worship God, they will not let [God’s Spirit] work powerfully [in their lives]. Do not associate with such people (OR, Do not let such people join [your congregation]),
6 彼らの中には人の家に潜り入りて愚なる女を虜にする者あり、斯くせらるる女は罪を積み重ねて各樣の慾に引かれ、
because some such [people, even now], subtly/deceivingly persuade foolish women to let them come into their houses, and then they deceive those women [so that they control what those women think. These women] have been burdened with sins {have sinned very much} and they have been led to do {they do} the many [evil] things that they strongly desire to do.
7 常に學べども眞理を知る知識に至ること能はず。
[Even though] they are always [wanting to] learn new things, they are never able to recognize what is true.
8 彼の者らはヤンネとヤンブレとがモーセに逆ひし如く、眞理に逆ふもの、心の腐れたる者、また信仰につきて棄てられたる者なり。
Just like Jannes and Jambres [long ago] very much opposed Moses, so also some [people] now oppose the true [message. Those] people think only what is evil. God rejects them [because they do not] believe [what is true].
9 されど此の上になほ進むこと能はじ、そはかの二人のごとく彼らの愚なる事も亦すべての人に顯るべければなり。
Nevertheless, they will not continue to succeed, because most [HYP] people will understand clearly that such people are foolish, just like people also realized [clearly that Jannes and Jambres were foolish].
10 汝は我が教誨・品行・志望・信仰・寛容・愛・忍耐・迫害、および苦難を知り、
But as for yourself, you have fully known what I have taught. You have known [and imitated] the way in which I conducted my life, [and] what I have been trying to do. [You have] trusted [God as] I have. You have been patient as I have been. [You have] loved people [as] I have, and [you have] endured [as you suffered like] I have [suffered].
11 またアンテオケ、イコニオム、ルステラにて起りし事、わが如何なる迫害を忍びしかを知る。主は凡てこれらの中より我を救ひ出したまへり。
[You know how I endured many times when people] harmed me. [They] caused me to suffer at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra [cities]. [But although they caused me to suffer], I endured it; and every time [they] did those things to me, the Lord rescued me.
12 凡そキリスト・イエスに在りて敬虔をもて一生を過さんと欲する者は迫害を受くべし。
(Indeed/You know that), for us [(inc)] who want to live (in a [godly manner/] a [manner that pleases God]), we will always be persecuted {there will always be people who will cause us to suffer} because we [have a close relationship with] Christ Jesus.
13 惡しき人と人を欺く者とは、ますます惡にすすみ、人を惑し、また人に惑されん。
Evil people (OR, And those) who deceive other people will (get worse/teach things that are more and more wrong). [Specifically, they will] deceive other people, and [those who hear them will] deceive others.
14 されど汝は學びて確信したる所に常に居れ。なんぢ誰より之を學びしかを知り、
But you, in contrast, must continue [to believe] what you have learned and (been assured of/firmly believe). [I know that you are confident/sure that it is true because] you know that you have learned it from all [of us who taught you] ([God’s truth/what is right]).
15 また幼き時より聖なる書を識りし事を知ればなり。この書はキリスト・イエスを信ずる信仰によりて救に至らしむる知慧を汝に與へ得るなり。
From [the time when you were] a child you have known the holy writings/Scriptures. [You now know that] they enabled you to become wise so that God saved you because of your believing in Christ Jesus.
16 聖書はみな神の感動によるものにして、教誨と譴責と矯正と義を薫陶するとに益あり。
God (inspired/put into men’s minds) everything [that is written] in the Scriptures {they [wrote] in the holy writings}, and those writings are all useful to teach [us what is true], to cause us to know [when we are] wrong and then (to correct us/to show us what we have done that is wrong), and to train/teach us to do what is right.
17 これ神の人の全くなりて諸般の善き業に備を全うせん爲なり。
What [is written] {they wrote} is useful to help us who [serve] God to be ready/prepared to do all that we should do. By means of it, we are equipped {God gives us what we need} in order to do every [kind of] good deeds.
