ヨハネの手紙第一 3
1 我等が神の子等と稱せられ、且然あらん為に父の我等に賜ひし愛の如何なるかを看よ。世の我等を知らざるは、彼を知り奉らざるが故なり。
Consider how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! The world does not acknowledge us for this reason: it did not acknowledge Him.
2 至愛なる者よ、我等は今實に神の子等たり、然れど其如何に成るべきかは未顕れず、我等は其顕れん時、我等が神に似奉るべきを知れり、其は之を有の儘に見奉るべければなり。
Dear ones, right now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is
3 総て此希望を有する人は、尚彼も潔く在すが如く、己を潔からしむ。
—everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure.
4 総て罪を犯す人は律法を犯す、即ち罪は律法を犯す事なり。
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness as well; yes, sin is lawlessness.
5 又イエズスの顕れ給ひしは我等の罪を除かん為にして、彼に聊の罪なき事は汝等の知る所なり。
And you know that He was revealed in order to remove our sins—in Him there is no sin.
6 総て彼に止る者は罪を犯さず、総て罪を犯す人は彼を見奉りし事なく彼を識り奉る事なし。
Whoever is abiding in Him does not sin; indeed, whoever is sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 小子よ、誰にも惑はさるる事勿れ、義を為す者は義人なり、猶彼が義人にて在すがごとし。
Dear children, let no one mislead you; he who keeps doing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 罪を為す者は惡魔よりの者なり、其は惡魔は初より罪を為す者なればなり。神の御子の顕れ給ひしは、惡魔の業を亡ぼし給はん為なり。
He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil's works.
9 総て神によりて生れ奉りし人は罪を為さず、其は御種之に存すればなり。又罪を為す能はず、其は神によりて生れ奉りたればなり。
Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God.
10 神の子等と惡魔の子等とは、是に於て乎明に顕る、即ち総て義を為さざる人は神よりの者に非ず、兄弟を愛せざる人も亦然り、
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: whoever is not doing righteousness is not of God, also whoever is not loving his brother.
11 其は互に相愛せよとは汝等が初より聞きし告なればなり。
Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another
12 カインの如く為すべからず、彼は惡しきものより[の人]にして弟を絞殺ししが、之を絞殺ししは何故ぞ、己が業は惡くして弟の業は正しかりし故なり。
—not like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own works were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
13 兄弟等よ、世の汝等を憎むを怪しむ事勿れ、
My brothers, do not be surprised if the world hates you.
14 我等は兄弟を愛するによりて死より生命に移されたるを知れり、愛せざる人は死に止る。
We know that we have transferred out of the death into the life because we love our brothers; he who does not love his brother remains in the death.
Whoever is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within himself. (aiōnios g166)
16 我等が愛を覚りたるは、キリストが我等の為に生命を棄て給ひしを以てなり、我等も亦兄弟の為に生命を棄つべし。
We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers.
17 此世の財産を有てるもの、兄弟の窮乏せるを見つつ、之に己が腸を閉ぢなば、争でか神に對する愛の之に止る事を得んや。
Now whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him?
18 我小子よ、我等は言と舌とを以て愛すべからず、行と眞とを以てすべし。
My dear children, let us not love in word or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth
19 之を以て我等が自ら眞理によれる事を知る、又御前に於て我心を勧めん、
—yes, by this we know that we are of the Truth and may put our hearts at ease in His presence,
20 蓋我等の心我等を咎むるも、神は我等の心より偉大に在して萬事を知り給ふなり。
and that, if our heart should condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all.
21 至愛なる者よ、若我等の心我等を咎めずば、神の御前に於て憚る所なし、
Dear ones, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,
22 又何事を願ふも之を賜はるなり、其は神の掟を守りて御意に適ふことを行へばなり。
and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
23 斯て其掟は、即ち御子イエズス、キリストの御名を信じ奉り、且其我等に命じ給ひし如く互に相愛すべき事是なり。
Now this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded.
24 神の掟を守る人は神に止り奉り、神も亦是に止り給ふ。我等が神の我等に止り給ふ事を知るは、其我等に賜ひし[聖]霊によりてなり。
He who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. This is how we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit whom He gave us.
