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1 イエズス、キリストの使徒たるペトロ、ポント、ガラチア、カパドシア[小]アジア及びビチニアに離散して寄留せる人々、
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 父にて在す神の預知に從ひて、[聖]霊によりて聖とせられ、且服從し、イエズス、キリストの御血を沃がれん為に選まれたる人々に[書簡を贈る]。願はくは恩寵と平安と汝等に加はらん事を。
according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
3 第一項 信徒の賜はりし恵を神に感謝す。 第一編 キリスト信徒の特典及び其要する聖徳。 祝すべき哉我主イエズス、キリストの父にて在す神、蓋其大いなる憫に從ひて、イエズスの死者の中よりの復活を以て、我等を新に生れしめて、活ける希望を懐かしめ、
Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
4 天に於て汝等に備はりたる、屈せず穢れざる而も萎まざる世嗣を得させんとし給ふ。
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
5 汝等は神の能力により、終の日に顕るべく備はりたる救霊を得ん為に、信仰を以て守らるるものなり。
who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
6 是によりて、假令暫くは種々の試に悩まさるべきも、汝等は喜に勝へざるべし。
in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
7 蓋汝等が信仰の試みらるるは、金が火を以て試るるよりも遥に尊き事にして、イエズス、キリストの公現の時、誉と榮と尊とを得べき者として認められん為なり。
that the proof of your faith — much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved — may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
8 汝等はイエズス、キリストを見ざりしも、之を愛し奉り、今も尚見ずして之を信じ奉り、信じ奉りて而も光榮を帯びたる言ひ難き喜に勝へざるならん。
whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,
9 其は汝等の信仰の目的たる魂の救を得べければなり。
receiving the end of your faith — salvation of souls;
10 此救霊に就きては、汝等に於る将來の恩寵の事を預言せし預言者等、穿鑿して之を探求せり。
concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,
11 即ちキリストの霊は彼等に在して、キリストに於る苦難と其後の光榮とを豫告げ給ひしかば、何時の頃如何なる時を示し給へるぞと探求したりしに、
searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,
12 其傳ふる所は、彼等自らの為に非ずして汝等の為なりとの黙示を得たり。其傳ふる所とは、天より遣はされ給ひし聖霊によりて汝等に福音を宣べし人々より、汝等が今既に告げられたる所にして、天使等も亦之を鑑みる事を欲せるなり。
to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you, ) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.
13 第二項 神の御恵に應じて生活すべし。 是故に汝等心に帯して節制し、イエズス、キリストの公現の時汝等に賜はる恩寵を缺くる所なく希望し、
Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
14 從順なる子兒の如く、最初の不知の望に從ふ事なく、
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
15 汝等を召し給ひし聖なるものに象りて、凡ての行状に於て汝等も亦聖と成れ。
but according as He who did call you [is] holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,
16 其は録して、「我は聖なるにより汝等も聖と成るべし」とあればなり。
because it hath been written, 'Become ye holy, because I am holy;'
17 人に依怙ある事なく、各の業によりて審判し給ふ者を父と呼び奉るならば、畏を以て汝等が世に住める時を過せ。
and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,
18 是汝等が先祖傳來の空しき行状より贖はれしは、金銀の如き壊るべきものによらずして、
having known that, not with corruptible things — silver or gold — were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
19 無缺無垢の羔の如きキリストの尊き御血によれる事を知ればなり。
but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted — Christ's —
20 彼は世界開闢以前より豫知せられ給ひたりしかど、彼によりて神を信仰せる汝等の為に、世の末に顕れ給ひたるものにして、
foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,
21 神が之を死者の中より復活せしめ之に光榮を賜ひしは、汝等の信仰と希望とを神によらしめ給はんとてなり。
who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.
22 汝等偽なき兄弟的相愛を生ぜしめんが為に、眞理に服從する事によりて魂を潔め、一層深く心より相愛せよ。
Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God — living and remaining — to the age; (aiōn g165)
24 蓋一切の肉身は草の如く、其榮は草の花の如し、草は枯れ其花は落つれども、
because all flesh [is] as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,
