マタイの福音書 6
1 汝ら見られんために己が義を人の前にて行はぬやうに心せよ。然らずば、天にいます汝らの父より報を得じ。
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 さらば施濟をなすとき、僞善者が人に崇められんとて會堂や街にて爲すごとく、己が前にラッパを鳴すな。誠に汝らに告ぐ、彼らは既にその報を得たり。
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a shofar before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
3 汝は施濟をなすとき、右の手のなすことを左の手に知らすな。
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
4 是はその施濟の隱れん爲なり。さらば隱れたるに見たまふ汝の父は報い給はん。
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
5 なんぢら祈るとき、僞善者の如くあらざれ。彼らは人に顯さんとて、會堂や大路の角に立ちて祈ることを好む。誠に汝らに告ぐ、かれらは既にその報を得たり。
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
6 なんぢは祈るとき、己が部屋にいり、戸を閉ぢて隱れたるに在す汝の父に祈れ。さらば隱れたるに見 給ふなんぢの父は報い給はん。
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
7 また祈るとき、異邦人の如くいたづらに言を反復すな。彼らは言 多きによりて聽かれんと思ふなり。
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
8 さらば彼らに效ふな、汝らの父は求めぬ前に、なんぢらの必要なる物を知りたまふ。
Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.
9 この故に汝らは斯く祈れ。「天にいます我らの父よ、願はくは御名の崇められん事を。
Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
10 御國の來らんことを。御意の天のごとく地にも行はれん事を。
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11 我らの日用の糧を今日もあたへ給へ。
Give us today our daily bread.
12 我らに負債ある者を我らの免したる如く、我らの負債をも免し給へ。
Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13 我らを嘗試に遇はせず、惡より救ひ出したまへ」
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
14 汝 等もし人の過失を免さば、汝らの天の父も汝らを免し給はん。
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 もし人を免さずば、汝らの父も汝らの過失を免し給はじ。
But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 なんぢら斷食するとき、僞善者のごとく、悲しき面容をすな。彼らは斷食することを人に顯さんとて、その顏 色を害ふなり。誠に汝らに告ぐ、彼らは既にその報を得たり。
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
17 なんぢは斷食するとき、頭に油をぬり、顏をあらへ。
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18 これ斷食することの人に顯れずして、隱れたるに在す汝の父にあらはれん爲なり。さらば隱れたるに見たまふ汝の父は報い給はん。
so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
19 なんぢら己がために財寶を地に積むな、ここは蟲と錆とが損ひ、盜人うがちて盜むなり。
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
20 なんぢら己がために財寶を天に積め、かしこは蟲と錆とが損はず、盜人うがちて盜まぬなり。
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;
21 なんぢの財寶のある所には、なんぢの心もあるべし。
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 身の燈火は目なり。この故に汝の目ただしくば、全身あかるからん。
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
23 されど汝の目あしくば、全身くらからん。もし汝の内の光、闇ならば、その闇いかばかりぞや。
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 人は二人の主に兼ね事ふること能はず、或はこれを憎み彼を愛し、或はこれに親しみ彼を輕しむべければなり。汝ら神と富とに兼ね事ふること能はず。
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
25 この故に我なんぢらに告ぐ、何を食ひ、何を飮まんと生命のことを思ひ煩ひ、何を著んと體のことを思ひ煩ふな。生命は糧にまさり、體は衣に勝るならずや。
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 空の鳥を見よ、播かず、刈らず、倉に收めず、然るに汝らの天の父は、これを養ひたまふ。汝らは之よりも遙に優るる者ならずや。
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
27 汝らの中たれか思ひ煩ひて身の長 一尺を加へ得んや。
“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
28 又なにゆゑ衣のことを思ひ煩ふや。野の百合は如何にして育つかを思へ、勞せず、紡がざるなり。
Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
29 されど我なんぢらに告ぐ、榮華を極めたるソロモンだに、その服裝この花の一つにも及かざりき。
yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
30 今日ありて明日 爐に投げ入れらるる野の草をも、神はかく裝ひ給へば、まして汝らをや、ああ信仰うすき者よ。
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
31 さらば何を食ひ、何を飮み、何を著んとて思ひ煩ふな。
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
32 是みな異邦人の切に求むる所なり。汝らの天の父は、凡てこれらの物の汝らに必要なるを知り給ふなり。
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 まづ神の國と神の義とを求めよ、さらば凡てこれらの物は汝らに加へらるべし。
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 この故に明日のことを思ひ煩ふな、明日は明日みづから思ひ煩はん。一日の苦勞は一日にて足れり。
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
