1 Corinthians · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
1 Corinthians 1 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Pablo, llamado a ser apóstol de Jesucristo por la voluntad de Dios, y el hermano Sóstenes,
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 a la iglesia de Dios que está en Corinto, a los santificados en Cristo Jesús, llamados a ser santos, junto con todos los que en todo lugar invocan el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, Señor de ellos y nuestro:
2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
3 Gracia y paz a ustedes de parte de Dios nuestro Padre y del Señor Jesucristo.
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 Siempre doy gracias a mi Dios por ustedes, por la gracia de Dios que les fue dada en Cristo Jesús.
4 I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
5 Porque en él ustedes fueron enriquecidos en todo, en toda palabra y en todo conocimiento,
5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge—
6 así como el testimonio acerca de Cristo fue confirmado entre ustedes.
6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you—
7 Por eso no les falta ningún don, mientras esperan la manifestación de nuestro Señor Jesucristo.
7 so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8 Él también los mantendrá firmes hasta el fin, para que sean irreprensibles en el día de nuestro Señor Jesucristo.
8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 Fiel es Dios, por quien ustedes fueron llamados a la comunión con su Hijo, Jesucristo nuestro Señor.
9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Hermanos, les ruego en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo que todos hablen de acuerdo, y que no haya divisiones entre ustedes, sino que estén unidos en una misma mente y un mismo parecer.
10 Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 Porque, hermanos míos, los de la casa de Cloé me han informado que hay pleitos entre ustedes.
11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
12 Quiero decir que cada uno de ustedes dice: Yo soy de Pablo; yo de Apolos; yo de Cefas; y yo de Cristo.
12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
13 ¿Está Cristo dividido? ¿Fue Pablo crucificado por ustedes? ¿O fueron ustedes bautizados en el nombre de Pablo?
13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
14 Doy gracias a Dios de que no bauticé a ninguno de ustedes, excepto a Crispo y a Gayo,
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15 para que nadie diga que fue bautizado en mi nombre.
15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
16 También bauticé a la familia de Estéfanas. Fuera de ellos, no recuerdo haber bautizado a ningún otro.
16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)
17 Porque Cristo no me envió principalmente a bautizar, sino a anunciar el evangelio; y no con sabiduría de palabras, para que la cruz de Cristo no pierda su poder.
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.
18 Porque el mensaje de la cruz es necedad para los que se pierden; pero para nosotros, los que somos salvos, es poder de Dios.
18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 Pues está escrito: Destruiré la sabiduría de los sabios, y desecharé el entendimiento de los entendidos.
19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
20 ¿Dónde está el sabio? ¿Dónde está el escriba? ¿Dónde está el discutidor de este mundo? ¿No ha convertido Dios en necedad la sabiduría del mundo?
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 Porque, en la sabiduría de Dios, el mundo no conoció a Dios por medio de su propia sabiduría. Por eso agradó a Dios salvar a los creyentes por medio de la predicación que el mundo considera necia.
21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
22 Los judíos piden señales, y los griegos buscan sabiduría.
22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
23 Pero nosotros predicamos a Cristo crucificado: tropiezo para los judíos y necedad para los gentiles.
23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
24 Pero para los llamados, tanto judíos como griegos, Cristo es poder de Dios y sabiduría de Dios.
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
25 Porque lo que parece necio en Dios es más sabio que los hombres, y lo que parece débil en Dios es más fuerte que los hombres.
25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 Hermanos, consideren su llamamiento: no muchos de ustedes eran sabios según la carne, ni muchos poderosos, ni muchos de familia importante.
26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
27 Pero Dios escogió lo necio del mundo para avergonzar a los sabios; y escogió lo débil del mundo para avergonzar a lo fuerte.
27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
28 Dios escogió lo bajo del mundo, lo despreciado y lo que no es nada, para reducir a nada lo que es algo,
28 God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
29 a fin de que nadie se jacte delante de Dios.
29 that no flesh should boast before God.
30 Pero por obra de Dios ustedes están en Cristo Jesús, quien fue hecho para nosotros sabiduría de Dios, justicia, santificación y redención.
30 Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
31 Así se cumple lo que está escrito: El que se gloría, gloríese en el Señor.
31 that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Apollos
An eloquent Alexandrian Jew, mighty in the Scriptures, who was taught more accurately by Priscilla and Aquila and then ministered in Achaia and at Corinth.
Cited in the guide: Acts 18:24; 1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:6
Chloe
Members of her household informed Paul of the quarrels at Corinth.
Cited in the guide: 1 Corinthians 1:11
Crispus
The leader of the synagogue at Corinth who believed in the Lord with his whole household and was baptized by Paul.
Cited in the guide: Acts 18:8; 1 Corinthians 1:14
Gaius
Paul's host at Corinth, whose hospitality extended to the whole church; Paul baptized him.
Cited in the guide: Romans 16:23; 1 Corinthians 1:14
Sosthenes
The synagogue leader seized and beaten before Gallio's tribunal at Corinth; a Sosthenes is named as co-sender of 1 Corinthians, probably the same man.
Cited in the guide: Acts 18:17; 1 Corinthians 1:1
Stephanas
Paul baptized his household, the first fruits of Achaia, who devoted themselves to serving the saints; he visited Paul at Ephesus.
Cited in the guide: 1 Corinthians 1:16; 1 Corinthians 16:15; 1 Corinthians 16:17
Places
Corinth
Corinth straddled the isthmus linking mainland Greece to the Peloponnese — a hub of commerce and immorality. Paul founded the church here; a Roman bema traditionally linked to his hearing before…
Cited in the guide: Acts 18:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Corinthians 1:1
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Romans 1:1; Ephesians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 1:1; Acts 18:17; Colossians 1:1
- 2 Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Acts 26:18; 1 Peter 1:15–16
- 3 Romans 1:7; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Corinthians 1:2; Ephesians 1:2
- 4 Romans 1:8; John 14:26; John 15:26; Romans 6:17; John 14:14
- 5 2 Corinthians 9:11; 2 Corinthians 8:7; Colossians 2:3; Philippians 1:9; Romans 15:14
- 6 Revelation 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:8; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 Corinthians 2:1–2; Acts 20:24
- 7 Philippians 3:20; 2 Peter 3:12; Hebrews 9:28; 1 John 3:2; Jude 21
- 8 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; Colossians 1:22; Philippians 1:6; Jude 24–25
- 9 2 Thessalonians 3:3; Hebrews 10:23; Deuteronomy 7:9; 1 John 1:3; 1 Corinthians 10:13
- 10 Philippians 2:1–4; Ephesians 4:1–7; 1 Corinthians 12:25; Romans 12:16; James 3:13–18
- 11 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 2:23–25; Galatians 5:26; Proverbs 18:6; Genesis 37:2
- 12 Matthew 23:9–10; John 1:42; 1 Corinthians 3:21–23; 1 Corinthians 3:4–6; Galatians 2:9
- 13 Ephesians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 11:4; Acts 2:38; Acts 10:48; 1 Corinthians 10:2
- 14 Acts 18:8; Romans 16:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; 2 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 14:18
- 15 John 7:18; 2 Corinthians 11:2; John 3:28–29
- 16 1 Corinthians 16:15; 1 Corinthians 16:17; Acts 16:15; Acts 16:33
- 17 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Peter 1:16; 1 Corinthians 2:4–5; 2 Corinthians 10:10
- 18 1 Corinthians 2:14; Romans 1:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; 1 Corinthians 1:23–25; 2 Corinthians 4:3
- 19 Isaiah 29:14; Jeremiah 8:9; 1 Corinthians 3:19; Job 5:12–13; Isaiah 19:11
- 20 Romans 1:22; 1 Corinthians 3:19; Job 12:17; 1 Corinthians 1:19; Job 12:24
- 21 Luke 10:21; Romans 1:20–22; Matthew 11:25; Ephesians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 1:24
- 22 Matthew 16:1–4; Matthew 12:38–39; John 2:18; Acts 17:18–21; Mark 8:11
- 23 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Peter 2:8; 1 Corinthians 2:2; Galatians 5:11; Isaiah 8:14–15
- 24 1 Corinthians 1:30; Colossians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 1:9; Romans 1:16
- 25 Romans 11:33–36; 1 Corinthians 1:18; Zechariah 4:6–7; 2 Corinthians 13:4; Zechariah 12:7–8
- 26 James 2:5; 1 Corinthians 3:18–20; 1 Corinthians 2:8; James 1:9–11; Matthew 11:25–26
- 27 James 2:5; Matthew 11:25; 1 Corinthians 1:20; Psalm 8:2; Luke 21:15
- 28 Job 34:24; Romans 4:17; Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 41:12; Job 34:19–20
- 29 Romans 3:27; Ephesians 2:9; Jeremiah 9:23; 1 Corinthians 4:7; 1 Corinthians 1:31
- 30 Ephesians 1:7; Philippians 3:9; Romans 8:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 6:11
- 31 Jeremiah 9:23–24; 2 Corinthians 10:17; Philippians 3:3; Psalm 105:3; Isaiah 41:16
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What the Fathers said
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“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).
See how immediately, from the very beginning, he casts down their pride, and dashes to the ground all their fond imagination, in that he speaks of himself as "called." For what I have learnt, saith he, I discovered not myself, nor acquired by my own wisdom, but while I was persecuting and laying waste the Church I was called.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
… "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, neither let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in the Lord, in diligently seeking Him, and doing judgment and righteousness" ), being especially mindful of the words of the Lord Jesus which He spake, teaching …
Moreover, they affirm that the Apostle Paul himself made mention of this cross in the following words: "The doctrine of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us who are saved it is the power of God." And again: "God forbid that I should glory in anything save in the cross of Christ, by whom the world …
But the Only-begotten has been "made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification," and has been numbered amongst us, and paid tribute to Cæsar.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… whom;" as when it saith, "I have gotten a man by God," putting not the second cause, but the first; and again, "Is not the interpretation of them by God," and, "God is faithful, by whom ye are called unto the fellowship of His Son."
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)