コリント人への手紙第一 4
1 第四項 パウロ自己の弁解 然れば人は宜しく、我等をキリストの僕、神の奥義の分配者と思ふべし。
Thus let us be accounted of you as ministers of the Meshiha, and stewards of the mysteries of Aloha.
2 然て分配者に要求する所は其忠實なる事なれど、
So now is it required of a steward that he be one found faithful.
3 我は汝等により、或は人の裁判によりて是非せらるることを、聊も意と為ず、又自ら是非する事をも為ざるなり。
But to me it is a little thing to be Judged by you, or by any man; neither do I judge myself,
4 蓋良心に何の咎むる事はなけれども、之に由りて義とせらるるには非ず、我を是非し給ふ者は主なり。
for of nothing in myself am I conscious; but not by this am I justified, but my judge is the Lord.
5 然れば汝等主の來り給ふ迄は、時に先ちて是非すること勿れ、主は暗夜の隠れたる所をを照らし、心の謀を發き給ふべし、其時面々に神より誉を得ん。
Therefore, do not judge before the time, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the thoughts of hearts. Then will there be praise to each man from Aloha.
6 兄弟等よ、我が是等の事を、我とアポルロとに引當てて云ひしは、是汝等の為、即ち我等の例を以て、録されたる以外に、一人を揚げ一人を蔑げて誇らざらん事を汝等に學ばしめん為なり。
BUT these things, my brethren, for your sakes I have applied to the person of myself and of Apolo, that through us you may learn not to think of us beyond what is written; and that one above his neighbour may not be exalted on account of any thing.
7 蓋汝を差別する者は誰ぞや、汝の有てる物にして、貰はざりし物は何かある、貰ひしならば、何ぞ貰はざりしが如くに誇るや。
For who distinguisheth thee? Or, what hast thou which thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received?
8 汝等既に飽足れり、既に富めり、我等を措きて王となれり。然り汝等王たれかし、然らば我等も汝等と共に王たるを得ん。
Now you are satiated, and are rich, and without us have reigned. But I would that you did reign, that we might also reign with you!
9 蓋我想ふに、神は使徒たる我等を、後の者、死に定まりたる者として見せ給へり。即ち我等は全世界、天使等にも人間にも観物とせられたるなり。
But I consider that us, the apostles, Aloha hath set last, as unto death, to be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men,
10 我等はキリストの為に愚者なるに、汝等はキリストに於て智者なり、我等は弱くして汝等は強く、汝等は尊くして我等は卑し。
We are fools for the sake of the Meshiha, but we are wise in the Meshiha; we are the weak, but you are the mighty; you are glorified, and we abased.
11 今の時に至る迄も、我等は飢ゑ、又渇き、又素肌なり、又頬を打たれ、又定まれる住所なく、
Until this hour we hunger and thirst, we are naked and beaten and have no fixed dwelling;
12 又手業を営みて勞し、詛はれては祝し、迫害せられては忍び、
and we labour, working with our hands. They revile us, and we bless; they persecute us, and we endure;
13 罵られては祈り、今に至る迄も世の芥、衆人の捨物の如くになれり。
they maltreat us, and we pray for them; as the refuse of the world are we made and the execration of all men until now.
14 我が斯く書記せるは、汝等を辱めんとには非ず、唯我至愛なる子として誡むるのみ。
Not as to shame you write I these things, but as my beloved children I admonish (you).
15 蓋汝等キリストに於て、師は一萬ありとも父は數多からず、其は福音を以て汝等をキリスト、イエズスに生みたるは我なればなり。
For if you have ten thousand teachers in the Meshiha, yet not many fathers; for in Jeshu Meshiha I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 故に我汝等に希ふ、（我がキリストに倣へる如く）汝等も我に倣へ。
I entreat then of you that you be like me.
17 我は之が為に、主に於て忠實なる我至愛の子チモテオを汝等に遣はしたるが、彼はキリスト、イエズスに於る我道、即ち至る處の各教會に我が教ふる所を、汝等に思出さしめん。
WHEREFORE I have sent to you Timotheos, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways in the Meshiha, according to that which I teach in all the churches.
18 或人々は我汝等に至らずとて誇れども、
But as if I were not coming to you, some of you are inflated.
19 主の思召ならば、我は速に汝等に至り、誇れる人々の言を措きて其實力を知らんとす。
But if the Lord will, quickly come I unto you; and I will know not the words of them who exalt themselves, but their power.
20 是神の國は言にあるに非ずして實力にあればなり。
For the kingdom of Aloha is not in word, but in power.
21 汝等は敦をか望める、我が鞭を以て汝等に至らん事か、将愛と温和の心とを以て至らん事か。
How are you willing? with a rod shall I come to you, or with love and with the spirit of kindliness?
