2 Corinthians · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 ¡Ojalá me soportaran un poco de locura! Sí, sopórtenme.
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Porque siento por ustedes un celo que viene de Dios. Los he prometido a un solo esposo, para presentarlos como una virgen pura a Cristo.
2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3 Pero temo que, así como la serpiente engañó a Eva con su astucia, también los pensamientos de ustedes sean apartados de la sinceridad y pureza hacia Cristo.
3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 Porque si alguien viene predicando a otro Jesús que nosotros no hemos predicado, o si ustedes reciben otro espíritu que no recibieron, u otro evangelio que no aceptaron, ustedes lo soportan muy bien.
4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
5 Pero considero que en nada soy inferior a esos llamados grandes apóstoles.
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
6 Aunque sea torpe en la palabra, no lo soy en el conocimiento; y en todo les hemos mostrado esto claramente.
6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7 ¿Acaso cometí pecado al humillarme a mí mismo para que ustedes fueran enaltecidos, porque les anuncié gratuitamente el evangelio de Dios?
7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8 A otras iglesias les quité apoyo, recibiendo ayuda de ellas para servirles a ustedes.
8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9 Cuando estuve con ustedes y tuve necesidad, no fui carga para nadie, porque los hermanos que vinieron de Macedonia suplieron lo que me faltaba. En todo me guardé de serles carga, y así seguiré haciendo.
9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10 Como la verdad de Cristo está en mí, nadie me quitará esta gloria en las regiones de Acaya.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 ¿Por qué? ¿Porque no los amo? Dios lo sabe.
11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12 Pero lo que hago, lo seguiré haciendo, para quitar la oportunidad a los que buscan una oportunidad de ser tenidos como iguales a nosotros en aquello de que se glorían.
12 But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
13 Porque tales hombres son falsos apóstoles, obreros engañosos, que se disfrazan como apóstoles de Cristo.
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
14 Y no es de extrañar, porque Satanás mismo se disfraza como ángel de luz.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15 Así que no es cosa extraña si también sus servidores se disfrazan como servidores de justicia. Su fin será conforme a sus obras.
15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16 Lo digo otra vez: nadie me tenga por loco. Pero si así me consideran, recíbanme como loco, para que yo también me gloríe un poco.
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17 Lo que digo en esta confianza de gloriarme, no lo digo según el Señor, sino como en locura.
17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Puesto que muchos se glorían según la carne, yo también me gloriaré.
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19 Porque ustedes, siendo sabios, soportan con gusto a los necios.
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
20 Soportan si alguien los esclaviza, si los devora, si se aprovecha de ustedes, si se enaltece, o si les da una bofetada.
20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
21 Para vergüenza mía digo que nosotros fuimos demasiado débiles para hacer eso. Pero en lo que alguien tenga atrevimiento, hablo como loco, yo también tengo atrevimiento.
21 To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22 ¿Son hebreos? Yo también. ¿Son israelitas? Yo también. ¿Son descendientes de Abraham? Yo también.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
23 ¿Son servidores de Cristo? Hablo como si estuviera fuera de juicio: yo más. He trabajado más, he estado más veces en cárceles, he recibido muchos más golpes y muchas veces he estado en peligro de muerte.
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
24 Cinco veces recibí de los judíos cuarenta azotes menos uno.
24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
25 Tres veces fui azotado con varas; una vez fui apedreado; tres veces sufrí naufragio; una noche y un día pasé en alta mar.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
26 En viajes muchas veces; en peligros de ríos, peligros de ladrones, peligros de los de mi nación, peligros de los gentiles, peligros en la ciudad, peligros en el desierto, peligros en el mar, peligros entre falsos hermanos.
26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
27 En trabajo y fatiga, en muchos desvelos, en hambre y sed, en muchos ayunos, en frío y desnudez.
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28 Además de otras cosas, cada día pesa sobre mí la preocupación por todas las iglesias.
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
29 ¿Quién es débil, y yo no soy débil? ¿Quién tropieza, y yo no me indigno?
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30 Si es necesario gloriarse, me gloriaré en lo que muestra mi debilidad.
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
31 El Dios y Padre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, quien es bendito para siempre, sabe que no miento.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
32 En Damasco, el gobernador bajo el rey Aretas guardaba la ciudad de los damascenos para arrestarme.
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
33 Pero fui bajado en una canasta por una ventana en la muralla, y escapé de sus manos.
33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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Aretas
The king whose governor guarded Damascus to seize Paul; Paul escaped in a basket through a window in the wall.
Cited in the guide: 2 Corinthians 11:32
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 11:4; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 5:13
- 2 Hosea 2:19–20; Ephesians 5:26–27; Isaiah 54:5; Colossians 1:28; Leviticus 21:13–15
- 3 Colossians 2:8; Galatians 1:6; Ephesians 4:14; 1 John 4:1; Colossians 2:4
- 4 Galatians 1:6–8; 1 Corinthians 3:11; 1 Timothy 2:5; Ephesians 4:4–5; 1 Corinthians 12:4–11
- 5 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 12:11–12; Galatians 2:6–9
- 6 1 Corinthians 1:17; Ephesians 3:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 2 Peter 3:15–16
- 7 2 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 4:10–12; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 9:6
- 8 2 Corinthians 11:9; Philippians 4:14–16; Philippians 4:18
- 9 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:6; Philippians 4:10–16; Hebrews 11:37
- 10 Romans 9:1; Acts 18:12; Romans 1:9; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 11:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 7:3; 2 Corinthians 6:11–12; 2 Corinthians 12:2–3; Revelation 2:23
- 12 1 Corinthians 9:12; 2 Corinthians 10:17; Galatians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 11:9; 2 Corinthians 11:18
- 13 Galatians 1:7; Revelation 2:2; 1 John 4:1; Philippians 3:2; Galatians 2:4
- 14 Galatians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Revelation 12:9; Matthew 4:1–10
- 15 Philippians 3:19; 2 Corinthians 3:9; Revelation 9:11; Jeremiah 23:14–15; Jude 4
- 16 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 12:6; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23
- 17 1 Corinthians 7:12; Philippians 3:3–6; 2 Corinthians 9:4; 1 Corinthians 7:25; 2 Corinthians 11:18–27
- 18 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Philippians 3:3–4; 1 Peter 1:24; 2 Corinthians 12:5–6
- 19 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Corinthians 8:1; Revelation 3:17
- 20 Galatians 2:4; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9; Isaiah 50:6
- 21 2 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Corinthians 10:1–2; 2 Corinthians 11:17; 2 Corinthians 11:22–27; 2 Corinthians 13:10
- 22 Philippians 3:5; Romans 11:1; Romans 9:4; Exodus 7:16; Exodus 9:13
- 23 2 Corinthians 6:4–5; Colossians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Corinthians 1:9–10; 2 Corinthians 11:24–25
- 24 Mark 13:9; Deuteronomy 25:2–3; Matthew 10:17
- 25 Acts 14:19; Hebrews 11:37; Acts 27:1–44; Acts 16:37; Acts 16:33
- 26 Acts 14:5; Acts 20:19; Acts 25:3; Acts 17:5; Acts 13:50
- 27 2 Corinthians 6:5; Philippians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 4:11–12
- 28 1 Corinthians 7:17; Romans 15:16; Acts 20:18–35; Romans 11:13; Acts 15:40–41
- 29 1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:22; Galatians 4:8–20; Nehemiah 13:23–25; Nehemiah 13:15–20
- 30 2 Corinthians 12:5–11; Proverbs 25:27; 1 Corinthians 2:3; Jeremiah 9:23–24; Proverbs 27:2
- 31 Romans 9:5; Ephesians 1:3; John 10:30; Romans 15:6; 1 Peter 1:3
- 32 Acts 9:24–25; 2 Corinthians 11:26
- 33 Acts 9:25; Joshua 2:18; 1 Samuel 19:12
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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).
Being about to enter upon his own praises he uses much previous correction. And he does this not once or twice, although the necessity of the subject, and what he had often said, were sufficient excuse for him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
For the devil it was, transforming himself into an angel of light. And he much allured proud flesh, in that he had no fleshly body.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Wherefore Paul also said, "That wherein they glory, they may be found even as we." But if when we are in a strange country, and are going unto persons unknown to us, we must seek nothing more than our food for the day, much more when abiding at home.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The devil also transfigures himself into an angel of light; not that he may reascend to where he was, for having made his heart hard as an anvil, he has henceforth a will that cannot repent; but in order that he may envelope those who are living an Angelic life in a mist of blindness, and a pestilent condition …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… not in his own voice, doth he call on that other deep, for whom being jealous he feareth, lest that, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so their minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in our Bridegroom, Thine only Son. What a light of beauty will that be when "we shall see Him as He …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)