Galatians · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Galatians 2 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Después de catorce años, subí otra vez a Jerusalén con Bernabé, llevando también a Tito.
1 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
2 Subí por una revelación, y les expuse el evangelio que predico entre los gentiles. Lo hice en privado ante los que eran reconocidos como líderes, para asegurarme de que no estaba corriendo ni había corrido en vano.
2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
3 Pero ni siquiera Tito, que estaba conmigo, fue obligado a circuncidarse, aunque era griego.
3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 Esto sucedió por causa de falsos hermanos que se habían metido en secreto para espiar la libertad que tenemos en Cristo Jesús, a fin de hacernos esclavos.
4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
5 Pero ni por un momento nos sometimos a ellos, para que la verdad del evangelio permaneciera con ustedes.
5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
6 En cuanto a los que parecían ser importantes, lo que hayan sido antes no me importa; Dios no hace diferencia entre las personas. Esos líderes no me añadieron nada nuevo.
6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
7 Al contrario, vieron que se me había confiado anunciar el evangelio a los incircuncisos, así como a Pedro se le había confiado anunciarlo a los circuncisos.
7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—
8 Porque el que obró en Pedro para el apostolado a los circuncisos, también obró en mí para los gentiles.
8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
9 Jacobo, Cefas y Juan, que eran considerados columnas, reconocieron la gracia que me había sido dada. Entonces nos dieron a Bernabé y a mí la mano derecha de compañerismo, para que nosotros fuéramos a los gentiles, y ellos a los circuncisos.
9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
10 Solo nos pidieron que nos acordáramos de los pobres, y eso mismo procuré hacer con diligencia.
10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
11 Pero cuando Cefas vino a Antioquía, lo enfrenté cara a cara, porque era digno de reprensión.
11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12 Antes de que vinieran algunos de parte de Jacobo, Cefas comía con los gentiles. Pero cuando ellos llegaron, comenzó a apartarse y separarse, por miedo a los de la circuncisión.
12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
13 Los demás judíos también participaron en su hipocresía, de tal manera que aun Bernabé fue arrastrado por la hipocresía de ellos.
13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 Pero cuando vi que no andaban rectamente conforme a la verdad del evangelio, dije a Cefas delante de todos: Si tú, siendo judío, vives como gentil y no como judío, ¿por qué obligas a los gentiles a vivir como judíos?
14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
15 Nosotros somos judíos de nacimiento, y no pecadores de entre los gentiles.
15 “We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,
16 Pero sabemos que nadie es justificado por las obras de la Ley, sino por la fe en Jesucristo. Por eso nosotros también hemos creído en Cristo Jesús, para ser justificados por la fe en Cristo, y no por las obras de la Ley; porque por las obras de la Ley nadie será justificado.
16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
17 Pero si al buscar ser justificados en Cristo, nosotros mismos somos hallados pecadores, ¿es Cristo entonces servidor del pecado? De ninguna manera.
17 But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
18 Porque si vuelvo a edificar lo que destruí, demuestro que soy transgresor.
18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
19 Porque yo, por medio de la Ley, morí a la Ley, para vivir para Dios.
19 For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
20 Con Cristo he sido crucificado. Ya no vivo yo, sino que Cristo vive en mí. Y la vida que ahora vivo en la carne, la vivo por la fe en el Hijo de Dios, quien me amó y se entregó a sí mismo por mí.
20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.
21 No rechazo la gracia de Dios; porque si la justicia viene por medio de la Ley, entonces Cristo murió en vano.
21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Titus
A Greek coworker of Paul, not compelled to be circumcised, who carried Paul's letters to Corinth, and whom Paul left in Crete to set things in order.
Cited in the guide: 2 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 8:23; Galatians 2:3
Places
Antioch (Syrian)
The empire's third-largest city and the first major Gentile church — the launching base for Paul's journeys. (Distinct from Pisidian Antioch.)
Cited in the guide: Acts 11:26; Acts 13:1-3; Galatians 2:11
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Galatians 2:3; Acts 15:2–4; Acts 14:12; 2 Corinthians 8:16; Galatians 2:13
- 2 Galatians 2:6; Philippians 2:16; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 9:26
- 3 Acts 16:3; Galatians 5:2–6; 1 Corinthians 9:20–21; 2 Corinthians 2:13; Acts 15:24
- 4 Galatians 5:1; Jude 4; 2 Peter 2:1–2; 1 John 4:1; Galatians 5:12–13
- 5 Galatians 4:16; Galatians 2:14; Colossians 2:4–8; Colossians 1:5; Jude 3
- 6 Galatians 2:2; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 11:5
- 7 1 Thessalonians 2:4; Acts 9:15; 1 Timothy 2:7; Galatians 1:16; Acts 13:46–48
- 8 Acts 22:21; Acts 9:15; Acts 15:12; Acts 2:14–41; Acts 21:19
- 9 Romans 12:3; Revelation 3:12; Ephesians 3:8; Galatians 2:2; Acts 15:22–30
- 10 1 John 3:17; Hebrews 13:16; Acts 24:17; 2 Corinthians 8:1–9; 1 Corinthians 16:1–2
- 11 1 Timothy 5:20; Galatians 2:14; Acts 15:1; 2 Corinthians 5:16; Galatians 2:5
- 12 Acts 10:28; Luke 15:2; Ephesians 3:6; Acts 11:2–3; Matthew 26:69–75
- 13 1 Corinthians 15:33; Hebrews 13:9; Ephesians 4:14; Ecclesiastes 10:1; Genesis 12:11–13
- 14 Acts 10:28; Galatians 2:5; Acts 15:10–11; 1 Timothy 5:20; Proverbs 2:7
- 15 Ephesians 2:3; Titus 3:3; Romans 3:9; Ephesians 2:11–12; Philippians 3:4
- 16 Philippians 3:9; Psalm 143:2; Romans 3:19–28; Romans 9:30; 1 Peter 1:18–21
- 17 Romans 6:1–2; 1 John 3:8–10; 1 John 3:5; Galatians 2:15; Matthew 1:21
- 18 Galatians 4:9–12; Galatians 2:4–5; Galatians 2:12–16; Romans 14:15; Galatians 2:21
- 19 Romans 7:4; Romans 6:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:10; Romans 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:15
- 20 Galatians 5:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Romans 6:4–6; Colossians 3:3–4; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
- 21 Romans 11:6; Galatians 3:21; Hebrews 7:11; 1 Corinthians 15:14; Galatians 2:16
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… that Paul alone knew the truth, and that to him the mystery was manifested by revelation, let Paul himself convict them, when he says, that one and the same God wrought in Peter for the apostolate of the circumcision, and in himself for the Gentiles. Peter, therefore, was an apostle of that very God whose was also Paul; and Him …
… the Son is the work of the Father, since it is written, "Who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all;" and that the Passion of the Son was His own work also, "Who loved me, and gave Himself for me." The Father delivered up the Son, and the Son delivered up Himself.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
"For He that wrought effectually in Peter," it is said, "to the apostleship of the circumcision, was mighty also in me towards the Gentiles." For since on seeing the Son, they were wroth and slew Him, He bids them again by His servants.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
But I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that Gospel which I preached among the Gentiles." And again he says, "For an hour we did give place to subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you." If, then, any one shall, from the Acts of the Apostles, carefully scrutinize the time concerning which it is …
But the Apostle says, "If righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain." What the Apostle says of the Law, that say we of nature to these men.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)