テトスへの手紙 1
1 神の僕またイエス・キリストの使徒パウロ――我が使徒となれるは、永遠の生命の望に基きて神の選民の信仰を堅うし、また彼らを敬虔にかなふ眞理を知る知識に至らしめん爲なり。
Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to [the] faith of God's elect, and knowledge of [the] truth which [is] according to piety;
in [the] hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time, (aiōnios g166)
3 時いたりて御言を宣教にて顯さんとし、その宣教を我らの救主たる神の命令をもて我に委ねたまへり。――
but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the] proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to [the] commandment of our Saviour God;
4 われ書を同じ信仰によりて我が眞實の子たるテトスに贈る。願はくは父なる神および我らの救主キリスト・イエスより賜ふ恩惠と平安と、汝にあらんことを。
to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
5 わが汝をクレテに遣し置きたる故は、汝をして缺けたる所を正し、且わが命ぜしごとく町々に長老を立てしめん爲なり。
For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained [unordered], and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:
6 長老は責むべき所なく、一人の女の夫にして、子女もまた放蕩をもて訴へらるる事なく、服從せぬことなき信者たるべきなり。
if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
7 それ監督は神の家 司なれば、責むべき所なく、放縱ならず、輕々しく怒らず、酒を嗜まず、人を打たず、恥づべき利を取らず、
For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him] as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;
8 反つて旅人を懇ろに待ひ、善を愛し、謹愼あり、正しく潔く節制にして、
but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,
9 教に適ふ信ずべき言を守る者たるべし。これ健全なる教をもて人を勸め、かつ言ひ逆ふ者を言ひ伏することを得んためなり。
clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.
10 服從せず、虚しき事をかたり、人の心を惑す者おほし、殊に割禮ある者のうちに多し。
For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the] circumcision,
11 彼らの口を箝がしむべし、彼らは恥づべき利を得んために、教ふまじき事を教へて全家を覆へすなり。
who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the sake of base gain.
12 クレテ人の中なる或る預言者いふ『クレテ人は常に虚僞をいふ者、あしき獸、また懶惰の腹なり』
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.
13 この證は眞なり。されば汝きびしく彼らを責めよ、
This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
14 彼らがユダヤ人の昔話と眞理を棄てたる人の誡命とに心を寄することなく、信仰を健全にせん爲なり。
not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
15 潔き人には凡ての物きよく、汚れたる人と不 信者とには一つとして潔き物なし、彼らは既に心も良心も汚れたり。
All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
16 みづから神を知ると言ひあらはせど、其の行爲にては神を否む。彼らは憎むべきもの、服はぬ者、すべての善き業に就きて棄てられたる者なり。
They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.
