ピリピ人への手紙 1
1 キリスト・イエスの僕たる我ら、パウロとテモテと、書をピリピにをるキリスト・イエスに在る凡ての聖徒、および監督たちと執事たちとに贈る。
[I], Paul, and Timothy, [who is with me, are] men who serve Christ Jesus. I [am writing this letter] to all [of you who are] pastors and deacons in Philippi [city] and to the rest of God’s people [there who have a close relationship] with 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。
[We both] (OR, [I]) [pray that] God, [who is] our Father, and Jesus Christ, [who is our] Lord, [will continue to] be kind to you and [will continue to] cause you to have [inner] peace.
3 われ汝らを憶ふごとに、我が神に感謝し、
I thank my God whenever I think about you.
4 常に汝ら衆のために、願のつどつど喜びて願をなす。
Every time [DOU] I pray [for you], I joyfully pray [DOU] for all of you.
5 是なんぢら初の日より今に至るまで、福音を弘むることに與るが故なり。
I [thank God and rejoice] because you have been [working] together with me in order to [make known] the good message about Christ. [You started doing that] when you first [MTY] [believed it, and you have continued doing it] until now.
6 我は汝らの衷に善き業を始め給ひし者の、キリスト・イエスの日まで之を全うし給ふべきことを確信す。
I am completely confident that [God], who has begun to do in you what is good, (OR, that since [God] has begun to do in you what is good, he) will continue to do that until he finishes doing it on the day Christ Jesus [MTY] [returns].
7 わが斯くも汝ら衆を思ふは當然の事なり、我が縲絏にある時にも、福音を辯明して之を堅うする時にも、汝らは皆われと共に恩惠に與るによりて、我が心にあればなり。
During this time that I have been a prisoner [MTY] and during the times I was previously able to defend the good message about Christ and proved/confirmed [to others] that it is true, all of you have been sharing with me (OR, have helped me) in this work [that God] kindly gave [to me to do. So] indeed it is right that I feel joyful about you all, because you are very dear [IDM] to me.
8 我いかにキリスト・イエスの心をもて汝ら衆を戀ひ慕ふか、その證をなし給ふ者は神なり。
God [can] verify that Christ Jesus causes me to [love and] long for all of you very much, [just like] Christ loves [you].
9 我は祈る、汝らの愛、知識ともろもろの悟とによりて彌が上にも増し加はり、
And what I pray [for you] is that [God will enable] you to truly know and learn how to love [one another] more and more in every situation.
10 善惡を辨へ知り、キリストの日に至るまで潔よくして躓くことなく、
[And I pray that he will enable] you to completely understand [how you should believe and act]. I [pray this] in order that you might be [spiritually] pure and faultless (OR, completely faultless [DOU]) on the day that Christ [returns] [MTY],
11 イエス・キリストによる義の果を充して、神の榮光と譽とを顯さん事を。
[and in order that] you might conduct your lives [IDM] completely righteously as a result of Jesus Christ [enabling you to do so], in order that [people will] honor God and praise him (OR, [people will] praise God very much [DOU]).
12 兄弟よ、我はわが身にありし事の反つて福音の進歩の助となりしを汝らが知らんことを欲するなり。
My fellow believers, I want you to know that the [troubles] I have experienced [have not prevented me from proclaiming the good message to people. Instead], [these things that I have experienced] have enabled even more people to hear the good message [about Christ].
13 即ち我が縲絏のキリストの爲なることは、近衞の全營にも、他の凡ての人にも顯れ、
[Specifically], all the military guards who are stationed [here in Rome] and many other [HYP] [people in this city] [HYP] now know that I am a prisoner [MTY] because I [proclaim the good news] about Christ.
14 かつ兄弟のうちの多くの者は、わが縲絏によりて主を信ずる心を厚くし、懼るる事なく、ますます勇みて神の言を語るに至れり。
Also, most of the believers [here now] proclaim the message from God more courageously and fearlessly [because] they trust the Lord [more firmly to help them. They trust the Lord more] because [they have seen how the Lord has helped me] while I have been a prisoner [MTY] [here].
15 或 者は嫉妬と分爭とによりてキリストを宣傳へ、あるものは善き心によりて之を宣傳ふ。
Some people proclaim [the message about Christ as I do] because they are happy [with my work]. They proclaim [the message about] Christ because they love [me and because] they know that [God] has placed me [here] to defend the message about Christ [CHI].
16 これは福音を辯明するために我が立てられたることを知り、愛によりてキリストを宣べ、
17 かれは我が縲絏に患難を加へんと思ひ、誠意によらず、徒黨によりて之を宣ぶ。
Others proclaim [the message about] Christ because they envy [me] and oppose [me]. They proclaim the message about Christ because they have wrong motives. They [wrongly] assume [that because they are causing many people to follow them, I will be jealous, and as a result], I will feel more miserable while I am a prisoner [MTY] [here].
18 さらば如何、外貌にもあれ、眞にもあれ、孰も宣ぶる所はキリストなれば、我これを喜ぶ、また之を喜ばん。
But it does not matter whether [people proclaim the message about Christ] because they have wrong motives, or whether [people proclaim the message about Christ] because they have right motives. The important thing in either case is that [the message about] Christ is being proclaimed {people are proclaiming [the message about] Christ}. And because of that I rejoice! Philippians 1:18b-26 Furthermore, I will continue to rejoice,
19 そは此のことの汝らの祈とイエス・キリストの御靈の賜物とによりて、我が救となるべきを知ればなり。
because when I experience troubles, I know that some day God will say that he approves [of what I have done] (OR, that [the Roman authorities] will set me free). [This will happen] as a result of your praying for me, and [as a result] of [God’s] Spirit, whom Jesus Christ gave me, helping me.
20 これは我が何事をも恥ぢずして、今も常のごとく聊かも臆することなく、生くるにも、死ぬるにも、我が身によりてキリストの崇められ給はんことを切に願ひ、また望むところに適へるなり。
I [know that this will happen] because I very confidently expect [DOU] that I will faithfully honor Christ. I expect that like I always [have done], Christ will be greatly honored {I will continue now also to very boldly honor Christ} by means of all that I do [SYN, MTY], whether by [the way I] live or [by the way I] die.
21 我にとりて、生くるはキリストなり、死ぬるもまた益なり。
As for me, I live [in order to honor] Christ. But if I die, it will be better [for me than if I continue to live, because then I will be with him].
22 されど若し肉體にて生くる事わが勤勞の果となるならば、孰を選ぶべきか、我これを知らず。
On the other hand, if I continue to live, that will enable me to continue to serve [Christ] effectively. As a result, I do not know which to choose.
23 我はこの二つの間に介まれたり。わが願は世を去りてキリストと偕に居らんことなり、これ遙に勝るなり。
That is, I am not sure which of those two I [prefer]. I long to leave [this world] and [go to] be with Christ, because that will be very much better [for me].
24 されど我なほ肉體に留るは汝らの爲に必要なり。
Nevertheless, it is more important that I remain alive [than that I go to be with Christ because] you still need [me to help you].
25 我これを確信する故に、なほ存へて汝らの信仰の進歩と喜悦とのために、汝 等すべての者と偕に留らんことを知る。
Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain [alive] and that I will [go/come to] be with you all. [As a result], you will believe [in Christ] more firmly, and [as a result of that], you will rejoice.
26 これは我が再び汝らに到ることにより、汝らキリスト・イエスに在りて我にかかはる誇を増さん爲なり。
[That is], you will be able to rejoice very greatly because of Christ Jesus [bringing] me [to be with you again].
27 汝 等ただキリストの福音に相應しく日を過せ、さらば我が往きて汝らを見るも、離れゐて汝らの事をきくも、汝らが靈を一つにして堅く立ち、心を一つにして福音の信仰のために共に戰ひ、
Most importantly, as fellow [believers in Christ], conduct yourselves just like [you learned you should do when you heard] the message about Christ. Do that in order that whether I come and see you, or whether [I am away from you and] people tell me about you, [what I hear or see will make me happy]. They will tell me that you are unitedly and cooperatively resisting [those who oppose the message about Christ] (OR, [oppose you]). I [will know] that you are not allowing others to influence you to believe a message that is different from the gospel [about Christ].
28 凡ての事において逆ふ者に驚かされぬを知ることを得ん。その驚かされぬは、彼らには亡の兆、なんぢらには救の兆にて、此は神より出づるなり。
And I [will know] that you are not at all frightened by {afraid of} the people who oppose you. This will show/prove to those people that [God] will destroy them, but this will show/prove to you that [God] will save you eternally. It is God who is doing [all] this.
29 汝 等はキリストのために啻に彼を信ずる事のみならず、また彼のために苦しむ事をも賜はりたればなり。
Remember that he has not only kindly enabled you to believe in Christ, [he] has also kindly allowed you to suffer for the sake of Christ.
30 汝らが遭ふ戰鬪は、曩に我の上に見しところ、今また我に就きて聞くところに同じ。
[As a result], you are [having to] resist [those who oppose the good message], just like you saw that I [had to] resist [such people there in Philippi], and just like you hear that I [still have to resist such people here] now.
