コリント人への手紙第一 7
1 第三項 婚姻及び童貞の身分 汝等が我に書贈りし事に就きては、男の女に触れざるは善き事なり。
Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.
2 然れど私通を免れん為には各妻あるべく、女も各夫あるべく、
Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.
3 夫は妻に負債を果し、妻も亦夫に然すべきなり。
Let the husband giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.
4 妻は其身の権利を有せずして夫之を有すると共に、夫も亦其身の権利を有せずして妻之を有す。
The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: and likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.
5 相拒む事勿れ、唯祈に從事せんとて合意の上暫く之を罷むるも、再び共に其事に復るべし、是汝等が色情に就きてサタンに誘はれざらん為なり。
Defraude not one another, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may giue your selues to fasting and praier, and againe come together that Satan tempt you not for your incontinecie.
6 然て我が斯く云へるは、命令に非ずして許可なり。
But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.
7 蓋我が望む所は、汝等皆我が如くならん事なりと雖も、人各固有の賜を神に得て、一人は此の如く一人は彼の如し。
For I woulde that all men were euen as I my selfe am: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.
8 然れば婚姻を為さざる人及び寡婦に向ひて我は言ふ、其儘に而も我が如くにして居らんは、彼等に取りて善き事なり。
Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.
9 然れど若自ら制する事能はずば、宜しく婚姻すべし、婚姻するは[胸の]燃ゆるに優ればなり。
But if they cannot abstaine, let them marrie: for it is better to marrie then to burne.
10 婚姻に由りて結ばれたる人々には、妻は夫に別るる事勿れと命ず。是我に非ずして主の命じ給ふ所なり。
And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.
11 若別るる事あらば其儘にして嫁がず、或は夫に和合すべし、夫も亦妻を離縁すべからず。
But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 其他の人々には我謂はん、是は主の曰ふに非ず、若兄弟に不信者なる妻を有てる者あらんに、其妻彼と同居する事を承諾せば、之を離別する事勿れ。
But to ye remnant I speake, and not ye Lord, If any brother haue a wife, ye beleeueth not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.
13 若又信者たる婦、不信者なる夫を有てる事あらんに、夫之と同居する事を承諾せば、夫を離去るべからず。
And the woman which hath an husband that beleeueth not, if he be content to dwell with her, let her not forsake him.
14 蓋不信者なる夫は（信徒たる）妻によりて聖とせられ、不信者なる妻も（信徒たる）夫によりて聖とせられたるなり。然らざれば汝等の子等は潔からざるべしと雖も、今彼等は聖たるなり。
For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husband, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.
15 不信者若自ら去らば去るに任せよ、其は斯る時に當りて、兄弟或は姉妹は奴隷たるべきに非ず、神は平和に我等を召し給へるなり。
But if the vnbeleeuing depart, let him depart: a brother or a sister is not in subiection in such things: but God hath called vs in peace.
16 蓋妻よ、汝争でか能く夫を救ふべきや否やを知らん、又夫よ、汝争でか能く妻を救ふべきや否やを知らん。
For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?
17 唯主が面々に分配し給ひし儘に、神が面々を召し給ひし儘に歩むべし、凡ての教會に於て我が教ふる所斯の如し。
But as God hath distributed to euery man, as the Lord hath called euery one, so let him walke: and so ordaine I, in all Churches.
18 人割禮ありて召されたらんか、割禮を匿む事勿れ、人割禮なくして召されたらんか、割禮を受くる事勿れ、
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not gather his vncircumcision: is any called vncircumcised? let him not be circumcised.
19 効あるは割禮に非ず、又無割禮に非ず、神の掟を守る事是なり。
Circumcision is nothing, and vncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandements of God.
20 各我が召されし時の身分に止るべし。
Let euery man abide in the same vocation wherein he was called.
21 汝奴隷にして召されたらんか、之を思ひ煩ふ事勿れ、假令自由の身となる事を得るも、一層利用せよ。
Art thou called being a seruant? care not for it: but if yet thou maiest be free, vse it rather.
22 蓋奴隷にして主に召されたる者は主に於ては自由の身となりし者、同じく自由の身にして召されたる者はキリストの奴隷たるなり。
For he that is called in the Lord, being. a seruant, is the Lords freeman: likewise also he that is called being free, is Christes seruant.
23 汝等は價を以て買はれたり、人の奴隷となる事勿れ。
Yee are bought with a price: be not the seruants of men.
24 兄弟等よ、各召されたる儘に、神に在りて之に止るべし。
Brethren, let euery man, wherein hee was called, therein abide with God.
25 童貞女に就きては、我主の命を受けざれども、主より慈悲を蒙りたる者として、忠實ならん為に意見を與へんとす。
Nowe concerning virgines, I haue no commandement of the Lord: but I giue mine aduise, as one that hath obtained mercie of the Lord to be faithfull.
26 然れば目前の困難の為には我之を善しと思ふ。其は其儘なるは人に取りて善ければなり。
I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.
27 汝妻に繋がれたるか、釈かるる事を求むる勿れ、妻に絆されざるか、妻を求むる事勿れ。
Art thou bounde vnto a wife? seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? seeke not a wife.
28 假令汝妻を娶るも罪とならず、童貞女嫁するも亦罪とならず、但斯る人は肉身上困難を受けん、我は汝等の之に遇ふことを惜む。
But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgine marrie, shee sinneth not: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29 兄弟等よ、我が言へるは是なり、時は縮まりぬ、然れば妻を有てる人も有たざるが如く、
And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:
30 泣く人は泣かざるが如く、喜ぶ人は喜ばざるが如く、買ふ人は持たざるが如く、
And they that weepe, as though they wept not: and they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that bye, as though they possessed not:
31 此世を利用する人は利用せざるが如くになるべき外なし、其は此世の態は過行くものなればなり。
And they that vse this worlde, as though they vsed it not: for the fashion of this worlde goeth away.
32 斯て我汝等の思ひ煩はざらんことを望む。妻なき人は、如何にして主を喜ばしめんかと、主の事を思ひ煩ふに、
And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.
33 妻と共に居る人は、如何にして妻を喜ばしめんかと、世の事を思ひ煩ひて心分るるなり。
But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
34 婚姻せざる女と童貞女とは、身心共に聖ならん為に主の事を思ひ、婚姻したる女は、如何にして夫を喜ばしめんかと、世の事を思ふなり。
There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.
35 抑我が之を言へるは、汝等に益あらんが為にして、汝等を罠に懸けんとするに非ず、寧汝等をして貞潔に進ましめ、餘念なく主に奉侍する事を得しめん為なり。
And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee follow that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.
36 人ありて若我女の童貞女の年過ぎたるを辱しとし、然せざるを得ずと思はば、其望む所を行へ、女婚姻するも罪を犯すには非ず。
But if any man thinke that it is vncomely for his virgine, if shee passe the flower of her age, and neede so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them be maried.
37 然れど人ありて、心に堅く決する所あり、必要にも迫られず、我意の儘に事を行ふ権力ありて、心の中に女を童貞女にして保つを善しと定めたらん時に、然するは善き事なり。
Neuerthelesse, hee that standeth firme in his heart, that hee hath no neede, but hath power ouer his owne will, and hath so decreed in his heart, that hee will keepe his virgine, hee doeth well.
38 然れば己が童貞女に婚姻を結ばしむる人も善き事を為し、結ばしめざる人も更に善き事を為すなり。
So then hee that giueth her to mariage, doeth well, but he that giueth her not to mariage, doeth better.
39 婦は夫の活ける間は繋がるれども、夫永眠すれば自由なり、宜しく望の人に嫁ぐべし、唯主に於て為すべきのみ。
The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord.
40 然れど我が意見に從ひて若其儘に止らば、福は一層なるべし、我も神の霊を有し奉る思ふなり。
But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.
