コロサイ人への手紙 1
1 神の御心によりてキリスト・イエスの使徒となれるパウロ及び兄弟テモテ、
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, also a follower of the Lord.
2 書をコロサイに居る聖徒、キリストにありて忠實なる兄弟に贈る。願はくは我らの父なる神より賜ふ恩惠と平安と汝らに在らんことを。
To Christ’s people at Colossae – the followers who are faithful to him: May God, our Father, bless you and give you peace.
3 我らは常に汝らの爲に祈りて、我らの主イエス・キリストの父なる神に感謝す。
Whenever we pray we never fail to thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you,
4 これキリスト・イエスを信ずる汝らの信仰と、凡ての聖徒に對する汝らの愛とにつきて聞きたればなり。
now that we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all his people,
5 かく聖徒を愛するは、汝らの爲に天に蓄へあるものを望むに因る。この望のことは汝らに及べる福音の眞の言によりて汝らが曾て聞きし所なり。
because of the hope which is kept safe for you in heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true message of the good news which reached you,
6 この福音は全世界にも及び、果を結びて増々 大になれり。汝らが神の恩惠をききて眞に之を知りし日より、汝らの中に然りしが如し。
bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you from the very day that you heard of God’s loving kindness, and understood what that loving kindness really is.
7 汝らが、我らと共に僕たる愛するエパフラスより學びたるは、この福音なり。彼は汝らの爲にキリストの忠實なる役者にして、
It is just what you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who, as a minister of the Christ, faithfully represents us,
8 汝らが御靈によりて懷ける愛を我らに告げたり。
and who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you.
9 この故に我らこの事を聞きし日より、汝 等のために絶えず祈りかつ求むるは、汝ら靈のもろもろの知慧と穎悟とをもて神の御意を具に知り、
And therefore we, from the very day that we heard this, have never ceased praying for you, or asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of God, which comes through all true spiritual wisdom and insight.
10 凡てのこと主を悦ばせんが爲に、その御意に從ひて歩み、凡ての善き業によりて果を結び、いよいよ神を知り、
Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and grow into a fuller knowledge of God;
11 また神の榮光の勢威に隨ひて賜ふもろもろの力によりて強くなり、凡ての事よろこびて忍び、かつ耐へ、
you will be made strong at all points with a strength worthy of the power manifested in his glory – strong to endure with patience, and even with gladness, whatever may happen to you;
12 而して我らを光にある聖徒の嗣業に與るに足る者とし給ひし父に感謝せん事なり。
and you will give thanks to the Father who made you fit to share the lot which awaits Christ’s people in the realms of light.
13 父は我らを暗黒の權威より救ひ出して、その愛しみ給ふ御子の國に遷したまへり。
For God has rescued us from the tyranny of darkness, and has removed us into the kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love,
14 我らは御子に在りて贖罪すなはち罪の赦を得るなり。
and through whom we have found deliverance in the forgiveness of our sins.
15 彼は見 得べからざる神の像にして、萬の造られし物の先に生れ給へる者なり。
For Christ is the incarnation of the invisible God – firstborn and head of all creation;
16 萬の物は彼によりて造らる、天に在るもの、地に在るもの、見ゆるもの、見えぬもの、或は位、あるひは支配、あるひは政治、あるひは權威、みな彼によりて造られ、彼のために造られたればなり。
for in him was created all that is in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible – angels and archangels and all the powers of heaven.
17 彼は萬の物より先にあり、萬の物は彼によりて保つことを得るなり。
All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;
18 而して彼はその體なる教會の首なり、彼は始にして死人の中より最先に生れ給ひし者なり。これ凡ての事に就きて長とならん爲なり。
and he is the head of the church, which is his body. The firstborn from the dead, he is to the church the source of its life, that he, in all things, may stand first.
19 神は凡ての滿ち足れる徳を彼に宿して、
For it pleased the Father that in him the divine nature in all its fulness should live,
20 その十字架の血によりて平和をなし、或は地にあるもの、或は天にあるもの、萬の物をして己と和がしむるを善しとし給ひたればなり。
and through him to reconcile all things to himself (making peace by the shedding of Christ’s blood offered on the cross) – whether on earth or in heaven.
21 汝 等もとは惡しき業を行ひて神に遠ざかり、心にて其の敵となりしが、
And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness –
22 今は神キリストの肉の體をもて、其の死により汝 等をして己と和がしめ、潔く瑕なく責むべき所なくして、己の前に立たしめんし給ふなり。
but now he has reconciled you to himself by the sacrifice of Christ’s earthly body in death – it has pleased God that you should stand in his presence holy, pure, and blameless,
23 汝 等もし信仰に止り、之に基きて堅く立ち、福音の望より移らずば、斯くせらるることを得べし。此の福音は汝らの聞きし所、また天の下なる凡ての造られし物に宣傳へられたるものにして、我パウロはその役者となれり。
if only you remain true to your faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made an assistant.
24 われ今なんぢらの爲に受くる苦難を喜び、又キリストの體なる教會のために、我が身をもてキリストの患難の缺けたるを補ふ。
Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his body, the church;
25 われ神より汝 等のために與へられたる職に隨ひて教會の役者となれり。
of which I myself became a minister in virtue of the office with which God entrusted me for your benefit, to declare the message of God in all its fulness –
that truth which has been hidden from former ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to God’s people, (aiōn g165)
27 神は聖徒をして異邦人の中なるこの奧義の榮光の富の如何ばかりなるかを知らしめんと欲し給へり、此の奧義は汝らの中に在すキリストにして榮光の望なり。
to whom it was his pleasure to make known the surpassing glory of that hidden truth when proclaimed among the Gentiles – ‘Christ among you! Your hope of glory!’
28 我らは此のキリストを傳へ、知慧を盡して凡ての人を訓戒し、凡ての人を教ふ。これ凡ての人をしてキリストに在り、全くなりて神の前に立つことを得しめん爲なり。
This is the Christ whom we proclaim, warning everyone, and instructing everyone, with all the wisdom that we possess, in the hope of bringing everyone into God’s presence perfected by union with Christ.
29 われ之がために我が衷に能力をもて働き給ふものの活動にしたがひ、力を盡して勞するなり。
It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.
