2 Corinthians · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
2 Corinthians 10 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Yo, Pablo, les ruego por la mansedumbre y ternura de Cristo, yo que, según algunos, soy humilde cuando estoy presente entre ustedes, pero atrevido con ustedes cuando estoy ausente.
1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
2 Les ruego que, cuando esté presente, no tenga que mostrar la valentía con que pienso actuar contra algunos que creen que nosotros andamos según la carne.
2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
3 Porque aunque vivimos en la carne, no luchamos según la carne.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
4 Las armas de nuestra lucha no son carnales, sino poderosas en Dios para destruir fortalezas.
4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
5 Derribamos argumentos y toda altivez que se levanta contra el conocimiento de Dios, y llevamos cautivo todo pensamiento para que obedezca a Cristo.
5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
6 Y estamos listos para castigar toda desobediencia, cuando la obediencia de ustedes sea completa.
6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
7 Ustedes miran las cosas según las apariencias. Si alguien está convencido de que pertenece a Cristo, considere otra vez esto: así como él pertenece a Cristo, también nosotros pertenecemos a Cristo.
7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
8 Porque aunque me gloríe un poco más de nuestra autoridad, la cual el Señor nos dio para edificación y no para destrucción de ustedes, no seré avergonzado.
8 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
9 No quiero que parezca que intento asustarlos por medio de mis cartas.
9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
10 Porque algunos dicen: Sus cartas son duras y fuertes, pero en persona es débil, y su manera de hablar no vale nada.
10 For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
11 El que dice eso debe entender que lo que somos en palabra por cartas cuando estamos ausentes, también lo seremos en hechos cuando estemos presentes.
11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
12 No nos atrevemos a contarnos ni compararnos con algunos que se recomiendan a sí mismos. Pero ellos, al medirse por sí mismos y compararse consigo mismos, no son sabios.
12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
13 Nosotros no nos gloriaremos fuera de medida, sino conforme a la medida del campo que Dios nos asignó, y que llega también hasta ustedes.
13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
14 Porque no nos extendemos más allá de nuestro límite, como si no hubiéramos llegado hasta ustedes. Fuimos los primeros en llegar hasta ustedes con el evangelio de Cristo.
14 For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
15 No nos gloriamos fuera de medida en trabajos ajenos. Más bien, esperamos que, al crecer la fe de ustedes, nuestro campo entre ustedes sea ampliado mucho más,
15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
16 para anunciar el evangelio en las regiones más allá de ustedes, sin gloriarnos en el trabajo ya hecho por otro en su propio campo.
16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
17 Pero el que se gloría, gloríese en el Señor.
17 But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
18 Porque no es aprobado el que se recomienda a sí mismo, sino aquel a quien el Señor recomienda.
18 For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 10:10; Matthew 11:29; Galatians 5:2; Romans 12:1; Isaiah 42:3–4
- 2 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 13:2; Galatians 5:16–25; Ephesians 2:2–3; 1 Corinthians 4:18–21
- 3 2 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Peter 4:1–2; Galatians 2:20; Romans 8:13; 2 Timothy 2:3–4
- 4 2 Corinthians 6:7; Ephesians 6:13–18; Jeremiah 1:10; 1 Corinthians 2:5; 1 Samuel 17:45–50
- 5 Hebrews 4:12; Isaiah 55:7; 1 Peter 1:14–15; Romans 7:23; Matthew 15:19
- 6 2 Corinthians 2:9; Numbers 16:26–30; 2 Corinthians 7:15; 2 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 5:3–5
- 7 John 7:24; 1 Corinthians 14:37; 2 Corinthians 5:12; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 1 John 4:6
- 8 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Timothy 1:12; Galatians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 13:8; 2 Corinthians 1:24
- 9 1 Corinthians 4:19–21; 2 Corinthians 10:10; 1 Corinthians 4:5
- 10 1 Corinthians 1:17; Exodus 4:10; 2 Corinthians 11:6; Jeremiah 1:6; 2 Corinthians 12:5–9
- 11 2 Corinthians 12:20; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 13:2–3; 1 Corinthians 4:19–20
- 12 Proverbs 27:2; Proverbs 26:12; 2 Corinthians 10:18; Luke 18:11; Romans 15:18
- 13 1 Peter 4:10; Romans 12:6; 2 Corinthians 10:14–15; Romans 15:20; Ephesians 4:7
- 14 Romans 1:16; 1 Timothy 1:11; 1 Corinthians 4:15; Romans 15:18–19; Acts 20:24
- 15 2 Thessalonians 1:3; Romans 15:20; 2 Corinthians 10:13; Acts 5:13
- 16 Romans 15:24–28; Acts 19:21
- 17 Jeremiah 9:23–24; 1 Corinthians 1:31; James 1:9–10; Isaiah 65:16; Psalm 105:3
- 18 Proverbs 21:2; Luke 16:15; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Romans 2:29; 2 Corinthians 10:12
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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).
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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).
Having completed, in such sort as behoved his discourse of almsgiving, and having shown that he loves them more than he is loved, and having recounted the circumstances of his patience and trials, he now opportunely enters upon points involving more of reproof, making allusion to the false apostles, and concluding his discourse with more disagreeable matter, and with commendations …
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 …
Oh, if men would know themselves to be men; and that "he that glorieth" would "glory in the Lord!"
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For this He declared by saying "Till He send forth judgment unto victory: and in His name shall the Gentiles trust." As Paul likewise saith, "Having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." But what is, "when He sends forth judgment unto victory?" When He hath fulfilled all His own part, then, we are told, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
So that saying of the apostle comes true of them, for, "comparing themselves with themselves, they do not understand." For because they do, in virtue of a new purpose, whatever new thing has occurred to them to be done (their minds being changeable), they conclude it is so with God; and thus compare, not God,--for they cannot conceive God, but …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)