ガラテヤ人への手紙 3

1 愚なる哉、ガラテヤ人よ、十字架につけられ給ひしままなるイエス・キリスト、汝らの眼前に顯されたるに、誰が汝らを誑かししぞ。

O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

2 我は汝 等より唯この事を聞かんと欲す。汝らが御靈を受けしは律法の行爲に由るか、聽きて信じたるに由るか。

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3 汝らは斯くも愚なるか、御靈によりて始りしに、今 肉によりて全うせらるるか。

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

4 斯程まで多くの苦難を受けしことは徒然なるか、徒然にはあるまじ。

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

5 然らば汝らに御靈を賜ひて汝らの中に能力ある業を行ひ給へるは、律法の行爲に由るか、聽きて信ずるに由るか。

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

6 録して『アブラハム神を信じ、その信仰を義とせられたり』とあるが如し。

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

7 されば知れ、信仰に由る者は是アブラハムの子なるを。

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

8 聖書は神が異邦人を信仰に由りて義とし給ふことを知りて、預じめ福音をアブラハムに傳へて言ふ『なんぢに由りてもろもろの國人は祝福せられん』と。

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9 この故に信仰による者は、信仰ありしアブラハムと共に祝福せらる。

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

10 されど凡て律法の行爲による者は詛の下にあり。録して『律法の書に記されたる凡ての事を常に行はぬ者はみな詛はるべし』とあればなり。

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

11 律法に由りて神の前に義とせらるる事なきは明かなり『義人は信仰によりて生くべし』とあればなり。

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

12 律法は信仰に由るにあらず、反つて『律法を行ふ者は之に由りて生くべし』と云へり。

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

13 キリストは我等のために詛はるる者となりて、律法の詛より我らを贖ひ出し給へり。録して『木に懸けらるる者は凡て詛はるべし』と云へばなり。

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

14 これアブラハムの受けたる祝福の、イエス・キリストによりて異邦人におよび、且われらが信仰に由りて約束の御靈を受けん爲なり。

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

15 兄弟よ、われ人の事を藉りて言はん、人の契約すら既に定むれば、之を廢しまた加ふる者なし。

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

16 かの約束はアブラハムと其の裔とに與へ給ひし者なり。多くの者を指すごとく『裔々に』とは云はず、一人を指すごとく『なんぢの裔に』と云へり、これ即ちキリストなり。

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

17 然れば我いはん、神の預じめ定め給ひし契約は、その後 四百三十年を歴て起りし律法に廢せらるることなく、その約束も空しくせらるる事なし。

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

18 もし嗣業を受くること律法に由らば、もはや約束には由らず、然るに神は約束に由りて之をアブラハムに賜ひたり。

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

19 然れば律法は何のためぞ。これ罪の爲に加へ給ひしものにて、御使たちを經て中保の手によりて立てられ、約束を與へられたる裔の來らん時にまで及ぶなり。

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

20 （中保は一方のみの者にあらず、然れど神は唯一に在せり）

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

21 さらば律法は神の約束に悖るか、決して然らず。もし人を生かすべき律法を與へられたらんには、實に義とせらるるは律法に由りしならん。

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

22 されど聖書は凡ての者を罪の下に閉ぢ籠めたり。これ信ずる者のイエス・キリストに對する信仰に由れる約束を與へられん爲なり。

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

23 信仰の出で來らぬ前は、われら律法の下に守られて、後に顯れんとする信仰の時まで閉ぢ籠められたり。

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 かく信仰によりて我らの義とせられん爲に、律法は我らをキリストに導く守役となれり。

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 されど信仰の出で來りし後は、我等もはや守役の下に居らず。

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

26 汝らは信仰によりキリスト・イエスに在りて、みな神の子たり。

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

27 凡そバプテスマに由りてキリストに合ひし汝らは、キリストを衣たるなり。

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

28 今はユダヤ人もギリシヤ人もなく、奴隷も自主もなく、男も女もなし、汝らは皆キリスト・イエスに在りて一體なり。

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 汝 等もしキリストのものならば、アブラハムの裔にして約束に循へる世嗣たるなり。

And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.