コリント人への手紙第一 9
1 第五項 パウロ、生活上に自由を濫用せざりしことを説示す 我は自由の身ならずや、使徒ならずや、我主イエズス、キリストを見奉りしに非ずや、汝等が主に在るは、我業ならずや。
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
2 我假令他の人に取りては使徒に非ずとするも、汝等には使徒なり、其は汝等は主に於て我使徒職の印章なればなり。
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 我に問ふ人々に對する我答弁は其なり。
My defence to those who examine me is this:
4 然て我等は飲食する権なきか、
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 他の使徒等、主の兄弟等及びケファの如く、姉妹なる婦を携ふる権なきか、
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 又唯我一人とバルナバとのみ勞働せざる権なきか。
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 誰か自ら費用を弁じて軍に出づる者あらんや、誰か葡萄園を植ゑて其果を食せざる者あらんや、誰か群を牧して群の乳を飲まざる者あらんや。
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
8 我豈人間の通例に由りてのみ斯る事を言はんや、律法も斯く云ふに非ずや。
Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9 即ちモイゼの律法に録して、「汝穀物を踏碾す牛の口を結ぶ事勿れ」、とあり、神は牛の為に慮り給へるか、
For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
10 之を曰へるは實に我等の為なるか、然り我等の為に録されたるなり。蓋耕す者は希望を以て耕し、穀物を踏碾す者も其果を得るの希望を以てすべきなり。
or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who ploughs ought to plough in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
11 汝等の中に霊的の物を蒔きたる我等なれば、汝等の肉的の物を刈取るとも、豈大事ならんや。
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 他の人汝等の上に其権を有するに、我等何を以てか一層然らざらんや。然れども我等は此権を利用せずして、聊もキリストの福音を妨げざらん為に、何事をも忍ぶなり。
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
13 汝等知らずや、聖職を営む人々は[聖]殿の物を食し、又祭壇に事ふる人々は祭壇の分配に與る。
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
14 斯の如く、主も亦福音を宣ぶる人々が福音に由りて生活する事を定め給ひしなり。
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 我斯る事を一も利用せざりしに、而も之を書送るは、斯の如く為られんとには非ず、其は此名誉の點を人に奪はるるよりは、寧死するこそ我に取りて善ければなり。
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
16 蓋福音を宣ぶるも、之を以て名誉とするに非ず、我は其必要に迫れるなり。福音を宣傳へざらんは、我に取りて禍なればなり。
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
17 即ち快く之を為せば報を得、心ならず之を為すも、其務は我に委ねられたるなり。
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
18 然らば我報は如何なるものぞ、其は福音を宣べて、人に費なく福音を得させ、福音に於る我権を利用せざる事是なり。
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
19 蓋我は衆人に對して自由の身なれども、成るべく多くの人を儲けん為に、身を以て衆人の奴隷となせり。
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 ユデア人を儲けん為には、ユデア人に對してユデア人の如くに成り、
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
21 律法の下に在る人々を儲けん為には、己律法の下に在ざれども、律法の下にある人々に對して律法の下に在が如くに成り、律法なき人々を儲けん為には、己は神の律法なきに非ずしてキリストの律法の下に在ども、律法なき人々に對して律法なき者の如くに成り、
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law towards God, but under law towards Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
22 弱き人々を儲けん為には、弱き者に對して弱き者と成り、如何にもして數人を救はん為には、衆人に對して如何なる者にも成れり。
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23 我が如何なる事をも福音の為にするは、其分に與らんとてなり。
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 第六項 此理を應用して献身を勧む 汝等知らずや、競走の場を走る人は悉く走ると雖も、賞を受くるは一人のみ、汝等受け得べき様に走れ。
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
25 総て勝負を争ふ人は萬事を節へ慎む、而も彼等は朽つる冠を得んとするに、我等は朽ちざる冠を得んとす。
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26 故に我が走るは目的なきが如くには非ず、我が戰ふは空を撃つが如くには非ず、
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
27 而も我わが體を打ちて之を奴隷たらしむ、是は他人を教へて自ら棄てられん事を懼るればなり。
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
