ヘブル人への手紙 12
1 この故に我らは斯く多くの證人に雲のごとく圍まれたれば、凡ての重荷と纏へる罪とを除け、忍耐をもて我らの前に置かれたる馳場をはしり、
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
2 信仰の導師また之を全うする者なるイエスを仰ぎ見るべし。彼はその前に置かれたる歡喜のために、恥をも厭はずして十字架をしのび、遂に神の御座の右に坐し給へり。
looking to Yeshua, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 なんじら倦み疲れて心を喪ふこと莫らんために、罪人らの斯く己に逆ひしことを忍び給へる者をおもへ。
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4 汝らは罪と鬪ひて未だ血を流すまで抵抗しことなし。
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 また子に告ぐるごとく汝らに告げ給ひし勸言を忘れたり。曰く『わが子よ、主の懲戒を輕んずるなかれ、主に戒めらるるとき倦むなかれ。
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6 そは主、その愛する者を懲しめ、凡てその受け給ふ子を鞭うち給へばなり』と。
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 汝らの忍ぶは懲戒の爲なり、神は汝らを子のごとく待ひたまふ、誰か父の懲しめぬ子あらんや。
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
8 凡ての人の受くる懲戒、もし汝らに無くば、それは私生兒にして眞の子にあらず、
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
9 また我らの肉體の父は、我らを懲しめし者なるに尚これを敬へり、況して靈魂の父に服ひて生くることを爲ざらんや。
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 そは肉體の父は暫くの間その心のままに懲しむることを爲しが、靈魂の父は我らを益するために、その聖潔に與らせんとて懲しめ給へばなり。
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
11 凡ての懲戒、今は喜ばしと見えず、反つて悲しと見ゆ、されど後これに由りて練習する者に、義の平安なる果を結ばしむ。
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12 されば衰へたる手、弱りたる膝を強くし、
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13 足蹇へたる者の履み外すことなく、反つて醫されんために汝らの足に直なる途を備へよ。
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 力めて凡ての人と和ぎ、自ら潔からんことを求めよ。もし潔からずば、主を見ること能はず。
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
15 なんじら愼め、恐らくは神の恩惠に至らぬ者あらん。恐らくは苦き根はえいでて汝らを惱し、多くの人これに由りて汚されん。
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
16 恐らくは淫行のもの、或は一飯のために長子の特權を賣りしエサウの如き妄なるもの起らん。
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
17 汝らの知るごとく、彼はそののち祝福を受けんと欲したれども棄てられ、涙を流して之を求めたれど囘復の機を得ざりき。
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
18 汝らの近づきたるは、火の燃ゆる觸り得べき山・黒 雲・黒闇・嵐、
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burnt with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
19 ラッパの音、言の聲にあらず、この聲を聞きし者は此の上に言の加へられざらんことを願へり。
the sound of a shofar, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
20 これ『獸すら山に觸れなば、石にて撃るべし』と命ぜられしを、彼らは忍ぶこと能はざりし故なり。
for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
21 その現れしところ極めて怖しかりしかば、モーセは『われ甚く怖れ戰けり』と云へり。
So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
22 されど汝らの近づきたるはシオンの山、活ける神の都なる天のエルサレム、千萬の御使の集會、
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
23 天に録されたる長子どもの教會、萬民の審判 主なる神、全うせられたる義人の靈魂、
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 新約の仲保なるイエス及びアベルの血に勝りて物 言ふ灑の血なり、
to Yeshua, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 なんじら心して語りたまふ者を拒むな、もし地にて示し給ひし時これを拒みし者ども遁るる事なかりしならば、況して天より示し給ふとき、我ら之を退けて遁るることを得んや。
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
26 その時、その聲、地を震へり、されど今は誓ひて言ひたまふ『我なほ一たび地のみならず、天をも震はん』と。
whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
27 此の『なほ一度』とは震はれぬ物の存らんために、震はるる物すなはち造られたる物の取り除かるることを表すなり。
This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
28 この故に我らは震はれぬ國を受けたれば、感謝して恭敬と畏懼とをもて御心にかなふ奉仕を神になすべし。
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29 我らの神は燒き盡す火なればなり。
for our God is a consuming fire.
