1 Corinthians · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
1 Corinthians 3 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Hermanos, no pude hablarles como a espirituales, sino como a carnales, como a niños pequeños en Cristo.
1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
2 Les di leche, y no alimento sólido, porque todavía no podían recibirlo. Y ni siquiera ahora pueden,
2 I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
3 porque todavía son carnales. Pues cuando hay celos, pleitos y divisiones entre ustedes, ¿no son carnales y no caminan como hombres comunes?
3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
4 Porque cuando uno dice: Yo soy de Pablo, y otro: Yo soy de Apolos, ¿no actúan como hombres comunes?
4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
5 Entonces, ¿qué es Pablo? ¿Y qué es Apolos? Solo servidores por medio de los cuales ustedes creyeron, según lo que el Señor dio a cada uno.
5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
6 Yo planté, Apolos regó, pero Dios dio el crecimiento.
6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
7 Así que ni el que planta es algo, ni el que riega, sino Dios, que da el crecimiento.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
8 El que planta y el que riega trabajan para un mismo fin, y cada uno recibirá su recompensa conforme a su trabajo.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 Porque nosotros somos colaboradores de Dios; ustedes son campo de Dios y edificio de Dios.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
10 Conforme a la gracia de Dios que me fue dada, yo, como sabio constructor, puse el fundamento, y otro edifica encima. Pero cada uno mire cómo edifica.
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
11 Porque nadie puede poner otro fundamento que el que ya está puesto, que es Jesucristo.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Si alguien edifica sobre este fundamento con oro, plata, piedras preciosas, madera, heno u hojarasca,
12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
13 la obra de cada uno se hará visible. El día la mostrará, porque será revelada por fuego; y el fuego probará qué clase de obra ha hecho cada uno.
13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
14 Si permanece la obra que alguien edificó, recibirá recompensa.
14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
15 Si la obra de alguien se quema, sufrirá pérdida; aunque él mismo será salvo, pero como quien pasa por fuego.
15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
16 ¿No saben que ustedes son templo de Dios, y que el Espíritu de Dios vive en ustedes?
16 Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
17 Si alguno destruye el templo de Dios, Dios lo destruirá a él; porque el templo de Dios es santo, y ese templo son ustedes.
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
18 Que nadie se engañe a sí mismo. Si alguno entre ustedes cree ser sabio en este mundo, hágase necio para llegar a ser sabio.
18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
19 Porque la sabiduría de este mundo es necedad delante de Dios. Pues está escrito: Él atrapa a los sabios en su propia astucia.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
20 Y otra vez: El Señor conoce los pensamientos de los sabios, y sabe que son vanos.
20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
21 Así que nadie se gloríe en los hombres, porque todas las cosas son de ustedes:
21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
22 Pablo, Apolos, Cefas, el mundo, la vida, la muerte, lo presente o lo por venir; todo es de ustedes.
22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
23 Y ustedes son de Cristo, y Cristo es de Dios.
23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
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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
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Hebrews 5:13; 1 Corinthians 2:14–15; Ephesians 4:13–14; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Corinthians 2:6
- 2 Hebrews 5:11–14; 1 Peter 2:2; John 16:12
- 3 James 3:16; Galatians 5:15; Titus 3:3; Ephesians 4:22–24; James 4:1–2
- 4 1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:3; 1 Corinthians 4:6
- 5 2 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 1 Peter 4:10; 2 Corinthians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 11:23
- 6 1 Corinthians 3:9–10; Proverbs 11:25; 2 Corinthians 10:14–15; Acts 18:4–11; 1 Corinthians 9:1
- 7 John 15:5; Galatians 6:3; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Psalm 115:1; 1 Corinthians 13:2
- 8 Romans 2:6; Psalm 62:12; 2 John 8; John 4:36–38; Matthew 16:27
- 9 1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 2:20–22; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Mark 16:20
- 10 1 Corinthians 3:11; Ephesians 2:20; Romans 15:20; Daniel 12:3; Matthew 24:45
- 11 Ephesians 2:20; Isaiah 28:16; 2 Timothy 2:19; Acts 4:11–12; 1 Peter 2:6–8
- 12 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Timothy 3:7; 2 Timothy 2:20; Colossians 2:18–23; Revelation 21:18
- 13 1 Peter 1:7; Revelation 20:12; 1 Corinthians 3:14–15; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Zechariah 13:9
- 14 Matthew 25:21–23; 1 Corinthians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Matthew 24:45–47; Daniel 12:3
- 15 2 John 8; 1 Corinthians 3:12–13; Jude 23; Revelation 3:18; 1 Peter 4:18
- 16 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ezekiel 36:27; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Romans 8:11; Ephesians 2:21–22
- 17 1 Corinthians 6:18–20; Ezekiel 43:12; Numbers 19:20; Ezekiel 7:22; Ezekiel 5:11
- 18 Proverbs 3:5; 1 Corinthians 1:18–21; Galatians 6:3; Isaiah 5:21; 1 Corinthians 8:1–2
- 19 Job 5:13; Psalm 141:10; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20; Romans 1:21–22; Isaiah 44:25
- 20 Psalm 94:11; Colossians 2:8; Romans 1:21; Job 11:11–12; Psalm 2:1
- 21 Romans 8:32; Romans 8:28; Jeremiah 9:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:6; Revelation 21:7
- 22 Ephesians 4:11–12; Philippians 1:21; 2 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 9:19–22; 1 Corinthians 3:5–8
- 23 Galatians 3:29; 1 Corinthians 15:23; John 17:18; John 17:9–10; 1 Corinthians 11:3
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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).
After having overturned the philosophy which is from without, and cast down all its arrogance, he comes unto another argument. For it was likely that they would say, "If we were putting forth the opinions of Plato, or of Pythagoras, or any other of the philosophers, reason were thou shouldest draw out such a long discourse against us.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
"For every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire;" and "whosoever shall defile the temple of God, him shall God defile."
For where was that charity building upon the "foundation" of humility, "which is Jesus Christ"? Or, when would these books teach me it?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Which Paul showing also in other ways, said, "So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase." From what we have already, then, He urges us in this way: and from examples of other things, by saying, "Behold the fowls of the air." Thus, lest any should say, "we do …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
As then it is His part to plant and to water, so it is thine to bear fruit: it is God's to grant grace, but thine to receive and guard it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)