1 Corinthians · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
1 Corinthians 14 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Sigan el amor, y procuren los dones espirituales, pero sobre todo que profeticen.
1 Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 Porque el que habla en lengua no habla a los hombres, sino a Dios; pues nadie lo entiende, aunque en el Espíritu habla misterios.
2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God, for no one understands, but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 Pero el que profetiza habla a los hombres para edificación, exhortación y consuelo.
3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
4 El que habla en lengua se edifica a sí mismo; pero el que profetiza edifica a la iglesia.
4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
5 Quisiera que todos ustedes hablaran en lenguas, pero más quisiera que profetizaran. Porque mayor es el que profetiza que el que habla en lenguas, a menos que las interprete, para que la iglesia reciba edificación.
5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but even more that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
6 Ahora bien, hermanos, si yo voy a ustedes hablando en lenguas, ¿de qué les serviré si no les hablo con revelación, conocimiento, profecía o enseñanza?
6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
7 Aun las cosas sin vida que producen sonido, como la flauta o el arpa, si no dan notas claras, ¿cómo se sabrá lo que se toca?
7 Even lifeless things that make a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
8 Si la trompeta da un sonido confuso, ¿quién se preparará para la batalla?
8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
9 Así también ustedes, si con la lengua no dicen palabras claras, ¿cómo se entenderá lo que dicen? Estarán hablando al aire.
9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
10 Hay, sin duda, muchos idiomas en el mundo, y ninguno carece de significado.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
11 Pero si no entiendo el significado de las palabras, seré extranjero para el que habla, y el que habla será extranjero para mí.
11 If then I don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
12 Así también ustedes, ya que desean los dones espirituales, procuren abundar en los que edifican a la iglesia.
12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
13 Por eso, el que habla en lengua ore para poder interpretarla.
13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
14 Porque si oro en lengua, mi espíritu ora, pero mi entendimiento queda sin fruto.
14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 Entonces, ¿qué haré? Oraré con el espíritu, pero también oraré con el entendimiento. Cantaré con el espíritu, pero también cantaré con el entendimiento.
15 What should I do? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16 Porque si bendices solo con el espíritu, ¿cómo dirá amén a tu acción de gracias el que no entiende, si no sabe lo que dices?
16 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
17 Tú, en verdad, das gracias bien; pero el otro no es edificado.
17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
18 Doy gracias a Dios porque hablo en lenguas más que todos ustedes.
18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
19 Pero en la iglesia prefiero hablar cinco palabras con mi entendimiento, para enseñar también a otros, que diez mil palabras en lengua.
19 However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
20 Hermanos, no sean niños en su manera de pensar. Sean niños en cuanto a la maldad, pero maduros en su manera de pensar.
20 Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
21 En la Ley está escrito: Por medio de hombres de otras lenguas y por labios de extranjeros hablaré a este pueblo; y ni aun así me escucharán, dice el Señor.
21 In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”
22 Así que las lenguas son señal, no para los creyentes, sino para los incrédulos; pero la profecía no es para los incrédulos, sino para los creyentes.
22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
23 Si, pues, toda la iglesia se reúne en un lugar, y todos hablan en lenguas, y entran personas sin entendimiento o incrédulas, ¿no dirán que ustedes están locos?
23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?
24 Pero si todos profetizan, y entra un incrédulo o alguien sin entendimiento, será convencido por todos y juzgado por todos.
24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
25 Así se manifestarán los secretos de su corazón; y, cayendo rostro en tierra, adorará a Dios y declarará que en verdad Dios está entre ustedes.
25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
26 Entonces, hermanos, ¿qué concluimos? Cuando se reúnen, cada uno puede tener salmo, enseñanza, lengua, revelación o interpretación. Que todo se haga para edificación.
26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
27 Si alguno habla en lengua, hablen dos, o a lo más tres, y por turno; y que uno interprete.
27 If any man speaks in another language, let there be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
28 Pero si no hay intérprete, que guarde silencio en la iglesia, y hable para sí mismo y para Dios.
28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.
29 Asimismo, hablen dos o tres profetas, y los demás juzguen lo dicho.
29 Let two or three of the prophets speak, and let the others discern.
30 Pero si algo le es revelado a otro que está sentado, que calle el primero.
30 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
31 Porque todos pueden profetizar uno por uno, para que todos aprendan y todos sean consolados.
31 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be exhorted.
32 Los espíritus de los profetas están sujetos a los profetas,
32 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
33 porque Dios no es Dios de confusión, sino de paz, como en todas las iglesias de los santos.
33 for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
34 Que las mujeres guarden silencio en las iglesias, porque no se les permite hablar, sino que estén sujetas, como también dice la Ley.
34 Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
35 Si quieren aprender algo, pregunten en casa a sus esposos; porque es indecoroso que una mujer hable en la iglesia.
35 if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”
36 ¿Acaso salió de ustedes la palabra de Dios? ¿O llegó solo a ustedes?
36 What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
37 Si alguno piensa que es profeta o espiritual, reconozca que lo que les escribo es mandamiento del Señor.
37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
38 Pero si alguno ignora esto, que siga en su ignorancia.
38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Así que, hermanos míos, procuren profetizar, y no prohíban hablar en lenguas.
39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.
40 Pero que todo se haga decentemente y con orden.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
Cross references (38)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Timothy 4:14; 1 Corinthians 14:39; 1 Corinthians 16:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:20; 1 Corinthians 12:1
- 2 Mark 16:17; Acts 19:6; Acts 10:46; Acts 2:4–11; 1 Corinthians 13:2
- 3 1 Timothy 4:13; 1 Corinthians 14:12; Jude 20; 2 Timothy 4:2; Ephesians 6:22
- 4 1 Corinthians 14:22; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 14:17–19; 1 Corinthians 14:3
- 5 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28–30; 1 Corinthians 13:1; Numbers 11:28–29; Mark 16:17
- 6 Ephesians 1:17; 2 Timothy 3:16; Romans 6:17; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 2 John 9
- 7 1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 14:8; Numbers 10:2–10; Matthew 11:17; Luke 7:32
- 8 Numbers 10:9; Ezekiel 33:3–6; Jeremiah 4:19; Joel 2:1; Amos 3:6
- 9 1 Corinthians 9:26
- 11 Acts 28:2; Romans 1:14; Acts 28:4; 1 Corinthians 14:21; Colossians 3:11
- 12 1 Corinthians 14:26; 1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 14:3–4; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Corinthians 12:7
- 13 Mark 11:24; John 14:13–14; 1 Corinthians 12:30; Acts 1:14; 1 Corinthians 14:27–28
- 14 1 Corinthians 14:2; 1 Corinthians 14:15–16; 1 Corinthians 14:19
- 15 Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 6:18; John 4:23–24; Ephesians 5:17–20; Jude 20
- 16 1 Chronicles 16:36; Psalm 106:48; Revelation 5:14; Deuteronomy 27:15–26; Nehemiah 8:6
- 17 1 Corinthians 14:4; 1 Corinthians 14:6
- 18 1 Corinthians 1:4–6; 1 Corinthians 4:7
- 19 1 Corinthians 14:21–22; 1 Corinthians 14:4
- 20 1 Peter 2:2; 1 Corinthians 13:11; Romans 16:19; Matthew 18:3; 2 Peter 3:18
- 21 Isaiah 28:11–12; Jeremiah 5:15; Deuteronomy 28:49
- 22 Acts 2:6–12; Mark 16:17; 1 Timothy 1:9; 1 Corinthians 14:1; Acts 2:32–36
- 23 Acts 2:13; 1 Corinthians 11:18; John 10:20; Acts 26:24; Hosea 9:7
- 24 Hebrews 4:12–13; Acts 2:37; 1 Corinthians 2:15; John 4:29; John 1:47–49
- 25 Isaiah 45:14; Zechariah 8:23; Psalm 72:11; Luke 17:16; Revelation 5:8
- 26 Ephesians 5:19; Romans 14:19; 1 Corinthians 12:7–10; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Ephesians 4:16
- 27 1 Corinthians 14:26
- 29 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:19–21; 1 John 4:1–3; 1 Corinthians 14:39
- 30 1 Thessalonians 5:19–20; Job 33:31–33; Job 32:11; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Job 32:15–20
- 31 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Proverbs 1:5; 1 Corinthians 14:35
- 32 1 John 4:1; Acts 4:19–20; 1 Corinthians 14:29–30; 2 Kings 2:5; 1 Samuel 10:10–13
- 33 James 3:17–18; 1 Corinthians 14:40; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Galatians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 11:16
- 34 1 Timothy 2:11–12; Genesis 3:16; Numbers 30:3–13; Colossians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 14:35
- 35 1 Peter 3:7; Ephesians 5:12; Ephesians 5:25–27; 1 Corinthians 11:14; 1 Corinthians 11:6
- 36 Zechariah 14:8; Acts 18:1–17; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; Isaiah 2:3; Acts 17:1
- 37 1 John 4:6; 2 Corinthians 10:7; 2 Peter 3:2; Jude 17; 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8
- 38 2 Timothy 4:3–4; 1 Timothy 6:3–5; Matthew 7:6; Revelation 22:11–12; Hosea 4:17
- 39 1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:20; 1 Corinthians 14:24–25; 1 Corinthians 14:5
- 40 Colossians 2:5; Titus 1:5; 1 Corinthians 14:26–33; 1 Corinthians 11:34; Romans 13:13
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Thus, inasmuch as he had with exactness rehearsed unto them all the excellence of love, he exhorts them in what follows, with alacrity to lay hold of it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
Is it not those who love God, and who believe His promises, and who "in malice have become as little children?"
… is from heaven;" and calleth upon this lower deep, saying, "Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." And, "Be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children," that in "understanding ye may be perfect;" and "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?" But now not in his own voice, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For signs are "not for them that believe, but for them that believe not." But why in the fashion of a dove?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For the clouds which are the Prophets were removed from them, and are for the future in the Church; as Paul says, Let the Prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge; and again, God gave in the Church, some, Apostles, and some, Prophets.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)