テサロニケ人への手紙第一 1

1 パウロ、シルヴァノ及びチモテオ、神にて在す父及び主イエズス、キリストに在るテサロニケ人の教會に[書簡を贈る]。

Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 願はくは恩寵と平安とを汝等に賜はらんことを。我等は常に汝等一同の為に神に感謝し奉り、祈祷の中に汝等を記念して、

Grace and peace to you. We give thanks to God always for all of you, keeping the memory of you in our prayers without ceasing,

3 絶間なく我父にて在す神の御前に於て、汝等の信仰の業と、愛の勞苦と、我主イエズス、キリストに於る希望の不退転なる事とを記憶す。

remembering your work of faith, and hardship, and charity, and enduring hope, in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father.

4 神に愛せられ奉る兄弟等よ、我等は汝等が選まれし次第を知れり。

For we know, brothers, beloved of God, of your election.

5 即ち我等の福音は、汝等に於て唯言のみに止らず、能力及び聖霊によりて全き確信を獲たりき、我等が汝等の中に在りて、汝等の為に如何なる者なりしかは、汝等の知れる所の如し。

For our Gospel has not been among you in word alone, but also in virtue, and in the Holy Spirit, and with a great fullness, in the same manner as you know we have acted among you for your sake.

6 汝等も亦大いなる患難に在りながら、聖霊の喜を以て言を受けて、我等と主とを學ぶ者と成り、

And so, you became imitators of us and of the Lord, accepting the Word in the midst of great tribulation, but with the joy of the Holy Spirit.

7 マケドニア[州]及びアカヤ[州]に於る一切の信者の模範たるに至れり。

So have you become a pattern for all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

8 蓋主の御言は、汝等よりしてマケドニア及びアカヤに響きしのみならず、神に於る汝等の信仰[の風評]何處にも行渡りたれば、我等は何事をも言ふを要せず、

For from you, the Word of the Lord was spread, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith, which is toward God, has advanced so much so that we do not need to speak to you about anything.

9 即ち彼等自ら我々の事を語り、我等が汝等の中に入りし次第、又汝等が偶像を去りて神に歸依し、活き給へる眞の神に事へ奉り、

For others are reporting among us of the kind of acceptance we had among you, and how you were converted from idols to God, to the service of the living and true God,

10 死者の中より復活せしめ給ひし其御子、即ち來る怒より我等を救ひ給ひしイエズスの、天より降り給ふを待てる次第を吹聴するなり。

and to the expectation of his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead), Jesus, who has rescued us from the approaching wrath.