コリント人への手紙第二 7
1 然れば我至愛なる者よ、我等此御約束を得て己を霊肉の凡ての穢より潔め、神を畏れ奉りて聖となる事を全うすべし。
Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
2 第五項 前書簡に関して説明を與へコリント人との親睦を全うせんとす 我等を承容れよ、我等は誰をも害せず、誰をも傷はず、誰をも掠めし事なし。
receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;
3 我が斯の如く言ふは汝等を咎めんとには非ず、其は生死を倶にすべく汝等我等の心に在りとは我が既に言ひたる所なればなり。
not to condemn you do I say [it], for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;
4 我汝等を信用する事大いにして、汝等を以て誇とする事大いなり。我等が一切の患難の中に於て、我は慰に満ち喜に堪へず。
great [is] my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,
5 蓋マケドニアに至りし時、我等の肉身は聊も安き事なく、一切の患難に遇ひ、外には争、内には懼ありき。
for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without [are] fightings, within — fears;
6 然れど謙る人々を慰め給ふ神は、チトの來着に由りて我等を慰め給へり。
but He who is comforting the cast-down — God — He did comfort us in the presence of Titus;
7 唯其來着に由りて耳ならず、尚彼が汝等の中に慰められし慰を以てせり。即ち汝等の我を慕ふ事、其歎、其熱心を我等に告げしかば、我喜は更に大いなりき。
and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,
8 蓋我書簡を以て汝等を悲ましめたれども、之を後悔せず、假令其書簡が暫しにても汝等を悲ましめしを見て後悔したる事ありとも、
because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent — if even I did repent — for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.
9 今は喜べり。是汝等の悲みし故に非ず、悲みて改心するに至りたる故なり。汝等の悲みしは神に順ひしものなれば、我等より何等の損害をも受けざるなり。
I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;
10 蓋神に順ひての悲は、悔なき救霊に至るべき改心を生じ、世間の悲は死を生ず。
for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,
11 看よ汝等が神に順ひて悲みしは、如何ばかりの奮發、而も弁駁、而も憤激、而も恐怖、而も愛慕、而も熱心、而も罪を責むる事を汝等の中に生じたるかを。汝等は萬事の上に此件に就きて穢に染まざる事を顕せり。
for, lo, this same thing — your being made sorry toward God — how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.
12 然れば我が汝等に書遣りしは、害を為しし人の為に非ず、害を受けし人の為にも非ず、我等が汝等に對して神の御前に有てる奮發を顕さん為なり。
If, then, I also wrote to you — not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God —
13 斯て我等は慰を得、慰を得たる上に尚チトの喜によりて一層喜べり。其は彼の精神、汝等一同に由りて安んぜられたればなり。
because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;
14 我曾て彼の前に汝等を以て誇とせしも耻とする所なく、我等が汝等に語りし所の皆眞なりし如く、チトの前に誇りし事も亦眞となれり。
because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,
15 彼は汝等一同の從順と恐慄きつつ己を歓迎したる態とを思出して、其腸の汝等に向へる事更に深し、
and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;
16 我萬事につけて汝等を信用するを喜ぶ。
I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.
