エペソ人への手紙 1
1 神の御意によりてキリスト・イエスの使徒となれるパウロ、書をエペソに居る聖徒、キリストに在りて忠實なる者に贈る。
To Christ’s people at Ephesus who are faithful to him, from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God.
2 願はくは我らの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。
May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.
3 讃むべきかな、我らの主イエス・キリストの父なる神、かれはキリストに由りて靈のもろもろの祝福をもて天の處にて我らを祝し、
Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has blessed us on high with every spiritual blessing, in Christ.
4 御前にて潔く瑕なからしめん爲に、世の創の前より我等をキリストの中に選び、
For he chose us in our union with Christ before the creation of the universe, so that we might be holy and blameless in his sight, living in the spirit of love.
5 御意のままにイエス・キリストに由り愛をもて己が子となさんことを定め給へり。
From the first he destined us, in his goodwill towards us, to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ,
6 是その愛しみ給ふ者によりて我らに賜ひたる恩惠の榮光に譽あらん爲なり。
and so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving kindness which he gave us in the one he loves;
7 我らは彼にありて恩惠の富に隨ひ、その血に頼りて贖罪、すなはち罪の赦を得たり。
for in him, and through the shedding of his blood, we have found redemption in the pardon of our offenses.
8 神は我らに諸般の知慧と聰明とを與へてその恩惠を充しめ、
All this accords with the loving kindness which God lavished on us, accompanied by countless gifts of wisdom and discernment,
9 御意の奧義を御意のままに示し給へり。
when he made known to us his hidden purpose. And it also accords with the goodwill which God purposed to exhibit in Christ,
10 即ち時 滿ちて經綸にしたがひ、天に在るもの地にあるものを、悉とくキリストに在りて一つに歸せしめ給ふ。これ自ら定め給ひし所なり。
in view of that divine order which was to mark the completion of the ages, when he should make everything, both in heaven and on earth, center in him.
11 我らは、凡ての事を御意の思慮のままに行ひたまふ者の御旨によりて預じめ定められ、キリストに在りて神の産業とせられたり。
In him, I say, for by our union with him we became God’s heritage, having from the first been destined for this in the intention of him who, in all that happens, is carrying out his own fixed purpose;
12 これ夙くよりキリストに希望を置きし我らが、神の榮光の譽とならん爲なり。
that we should enhance his glory – we who have been the first to rest our hopes on the Christ.
13 汝 等もキリストに在りて、眞の言すなはち汝らの救の福音をきき、彼を信じて約束の聖 靈にて印せられたり。
And you, too, by your union with him, after you had heard the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation – you believed in him and were sealed as his by receiving the holy Spirit, which he had promised.
14 これは我らが受くべき嗣業の保證にして、神に屬けるものの贖はれ、かつ神の榮光に譽あらん爲なり。
And the Spirit is a pledge of our future heritage, foreshadowing the full redemption of God’s own people – to enhance his glory.
15 この故に我も汝らが主イエスに對する信仰と凡ての聖徒に對する愛とを聞きて、
And therefore I, ever since I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and of your confidence in all Christ’s people,
16 絶えず汝らのために感謝し、わが祈のうちに汝らを憶え、
have never omitted to thank God on your behalf, whenever I make mention of you in my prayers.
17 我らの主イエス・キリストの神、榮光の父、なんぢらに智慧と默示との靈を與へて、神を知らしめ、
My prayer is that the God of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-glorious Father, may inspire you with wisdom and true insight through a fuller knowledge of himself;
18 汝らの心の眼を明かにし、神の召にかかはる望と、聖徒にある神の嗣業の榮光の富と、
that your minds may be so enlightened that you may realize the hope given by God’s call, the wealth of the glory of his heritage among Christ’s people,
19 神の大能の勢威の活動によりて信ずる我らに對する能力の極めて大なるとを知らしめ給はんことを願ふ。
and the transcendent greatness of the power which he is able to exercise in dealing with us who believe in him.
20 神はその大能をキリストのうちに働かせて、之を死人の中より甦へらせ、天の所にて己の右に坐せしめ、
The same mighty power was exerted on the Christ, when he raised the Christ from the dead and ‘caused him to sit at his right hand’ on high, exalting him above all angels and archangels of every rank,
and above every name that can be named, whether in the present age, or in the age to come. (aiōn g165)
22 萬の物をその足の下に服はせ、彼を萬の物の上に首として教會に與へ給へり。
And God placed all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as its supreme head;
23 この教會は彼の體にして、萬の物をもて萬の物に滿し給ふ者の滿つる所なり。
for the church is Christ’s body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.
