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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。
See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know 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。
beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him 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。
and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify 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。
Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the 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 ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;
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。
every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not 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。
Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even 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 is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;
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。
every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.
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 manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who 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 ye did hear from the beginning, that we may 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 as Cain — of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.
13 兄弟等よ、世の汝等を憎むを怪しむ事勿れ、
Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate 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 — we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.
Every one who is hating his brother — a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, (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。
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
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。
and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him — how doth the love of God remain 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 little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in 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、
and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
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。
because if our heart may condemn — because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.
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、
Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness 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 His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
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。
and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
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。
and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
