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。
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God: To God's people who are in Ephesus--believers in Christ Jesus.
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 grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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 be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms 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、
even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.
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。
For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--
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。
to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.
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。
It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace,
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、
the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us,
9 御意の奧義を御意のままに示し給へり。
when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose
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。
for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head 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 we Jews have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will,
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。
so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our hopes on 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 in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit;
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。
that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance, in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling of 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、
For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and of your love for all God'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、
offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while 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、
For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,
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、
the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God'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 what the transcendent greatness of His power in us believers as seen in the working of His infinite might
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、
when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this 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。
God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,
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。
the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself.
