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 thoughtless Galatians! who hath bewitched you, —before whose very eyes, Jesus Christ, was openly set forth as a crucified one?

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, am I wishing to learn from you: —by works of law, received ye, the Spirit? or by a believed report?

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。

So thoughtless, are ye? Having made a beginning in Spirit, are ye, now, in flesh, to be made complete?

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。

Such things, suffered ye, in vain, —if at least [it is] even 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 then who was supplying unto you the Spirit, and energising mighty works among you, by works of law, or by a believed report [did he it]?

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 in God, and it was reckoned unto him as 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。

Be taking note, therefore—that, they who are of faith, the same, are, sons, 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, by faith, God would declare the nations righteous, fore-announced the good news unto Abraham, saying, All the nations shall be blessed in thee.

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 who are of faith, are blessed with believing 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 works of law, are, under a curse, —for it is written—Accursed, is everyone that continueth not in all things that 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。

Moreover, that, in law, no one, is declared righteous with God, [is] evident, —because, The righteous one, by faith, shall live;

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—he that hath done 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, out of the curse of the law, having become, in our behalf, a curse; —because it is written—Cursed, is every one that hangeth upon 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。

In order that, unto the nations, the blessing of Abraham, might come about in Jesus Christ, —in order that, the promise of the Spirit, we might receive through means of the 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! in human fashion, am I speaking: yet still, a man’s confirmed covenant, no one setteth aside or addeth unto:

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, unto Abraham, were spoken the promises—and unto his seed; —He saith not—and unto thy seeds, as of many, but, as of one—and unto 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—a covenant previously confirmed by God, the law which, after four hundred and thirty years, hath been brought into being, doth not annul, so as to do away with the promise.

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, by law, is the inheritance, it is, no longer, by promise; but, unto Abraham, through promise, hath God favoured it.

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。

Why, then, the law? Because of the transgressions, it was added, until such time as the seed should come, unto whom the promise had been made, and was given in charge through messengers, at 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]? Far be it! For, if a law had been given, which had been able to give life, verily, in law, would have been our righteousness;

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, did shut up, all things, under sin, that, the promise by faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to them who have faith,

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。

Before the coming of the faith, however, under law, were we being kept in ward, being 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。

So that, the law, hath proved, our tutor, training us, for Christ, in order that, by faith, we might be declared righteous;

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, the faith having come, no longer, are we, under a tutor; —

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, all, are, sons of God, through the 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 ye, as many as, into Christ, have been immersed, have put Christ, on:

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 cannot be Jew or Greek, there cannot be bond or free, there cannot be male and female, for, all ye, are 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。

Now, if, ye, are of Christ, by consequence ye are, Abraham’s seed, according to promise, heirs.