Luke · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Luke 12 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Mientras tanto, se había reunido tanta gente que se atropellaban unos a otros. Jesús comenzó a decir primero a sus discípulos: Cuídense de la levadura de los fariseos, que es la hipocresía.
1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2 Porque no hay nada encubierto que no vaya a ser descubierto, ni nada escondido que no vaya a ser conocido.
2 But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.
3 Por eso, todo lo que ustedes hayan dicho en la oscuridad, se oirá en la luz; y lo que hayan dicho al oído en los cuartos interiores, será anunciado desde las azoteas.
3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
4 Les digo a ustedes, mis amigos: No teman a los que matan el cuerpo, y después de eso no pueden hacer más.
4 “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
5 Pero les mostraré a quién deben temer: teman a aquel que, después de matar, tiene poder para echar en el infierno. Sí, les digo: a él teman.
5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
6 ¿No se venden cinco pajaritos por dos monedas pequeñas? Sin embargo, ni uno de ellos está olvidado delante de Dios.
6 “Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
7 Aun los cabellos de la cabeza de ustedes están todos contados. No tengan miedo; ustedes valen más que muchos pajaritos.
7 But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
8 Les digo que todo el que me reconozca delante de la gente, también el Hijo del Hombre lo reconocerá delante de los ángeles de Dios.
8 “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;
9 Pero el que me niegue delante de la gente, será negado delante de los ángeles de Dios.
9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.
10 A todo el que diga una palabra contra el Hijo del Hombre, le será perdonado; pero al que blasfeme contra el Espíritu Santo, no le será perdonado.
10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
11 Cuando los lleven ante las sinagogas, ante las autoridades y ante los gobernantes, no se preocupen por cómo se defenderán ni por lo que dirán.
11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer or what you will say;
12 Porque el Espíritu Santo les enseñará en esa misma hora lo que deben decir.
12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”
13 Uno de la multitud le dijo: Maestro, dile a mi hermano que divida la herencia conmigo.
13 One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 Pero Jesús le dijo: Hombre, ¿quién me puso como juez o repartidor entre ustedes?
14 But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
15 Luego les dijo: Miren y cuídense de toda avaricia, porque la vida de una persona no depende de la abundancia de sus bienes.
15 He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
16 Entonces les contó una parábola: La tierra de un hombre rico produjo mucho.
16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
17 Él pensaba dentro de sí: ¿Qué haré? No tengo dónde guardar mis cosechas.
17 He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
18 Y dijo: Esto haré: derribaré mis graneros y construiré otros más grandes. Allí guardaré todas mis cosechas y mis bienes.
18 He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19 Entonces diré a mi alma: Alma, tienes muchos bienes guardados para muchos años. Descansa, come, bebe y disfruta.
19 I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’
20 Pero Dios le dijo: Necio, esta noche te pedirán tu alma. Entonces, ¿para quién será lo que has preparado?
20 “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
21 Así es el que acumula tesoros para sí mismo, pero no es rico para con Dios.
21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
22 Luego dijo a sus discípulos: Por eso les digo: No se preocupen por su vida, qué comerán; ni por su cuerpo, qué vestirán.
22 He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
23 La vida es más que la comida, y el cuerpo más que la ropa.
23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
24 Consideren los cuervos: no siembran ni cosechan, no tienen almacén ni granero, y Dios los alimenta. ¡Cuánto más valen ustedes que las aves!
24 Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
25 ¿Quién de ustedes, por mucho que se preocupe, puede añadir una sola hora a su vida?
25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
26 Si ustedes no pueden hacer ni lo más pequeño, ¿por qué se preocupan por lo demás?
26 If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
27 Consideren los lirios, cómo crecen: no trabajan ni hilan. Pero les digo que ni Salomón, con toda su gloria, se vistió como uno de ellos.
27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 Si Dios viste así la hierba del campo, que hoy está viva y mañana se echa al horno, ¿cuánto más hará por ustedes, hombres de poca fe?
28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
29 No anden buscando qué comerán o qué beberán, ni estén ansiosos.
29 “Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
30 Porque todas estas cosas buscan las naciones del mundo; pero su Padre sabe que ustedes necesitan estas cosas.
30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
31 Más bien, busquen el reino de Dios, y estas cosas les serán añadidas.
31 But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
32 No temas, pequeño rebaño, porque a su Padre le agradó darles el reino.
32 “Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
33 Vendan lo que tienen y den a los pobres. Háganse bolsas que no se envejecen, un tesoro inagotable en los cielos, donde el ladrón no llega y la polilla no destruye.
33 Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
34 Porque donde esté su tesoro, allí estará también su corazón.
34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35 Estén vestidos y preparados, y mantengan sus lámparas encendidas.
35 “Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
36 Sean como siervos que esperan a que su señor vuelva de la boda, para abrirle enseguida cuando llegue y llame.
36 Be like men watching for their lord when he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
37 Dichosos aquellos siervos a quienes su señor, cuando venga, encuentre velando. De cierto les digo que él se vestirá para servir, los hará sentar a la mesa, y vendrá a servirles.
37 Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.
38 Aunque venga en la segunda o en la tercera vigilia de la noche, dichosos aquellos siervos si los encuentra así.
38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.
39 Pero sepan esto: si el dueño de la casa supiera a qué hora viene el ladrón, velaría y no dejaría que entrara en su casa.
39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
40 Por eso ustedes también estén preparados, porque el Hijo del Hombre vendrá a la hora que no esperan.
40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”
41 Entonces Pedro le dijo: Señor, ¿dices esta parábola solo para nosotros, o también para todos?
41 Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
42 El Señor respondió: ¿Quién es, pues, el mayordomo fiel y prudente, a quien su señor pondrá sobre los de su casa para darles su ración de alimento a su tiempo?
42 The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
43 Dichoso aquel siervo a quien su señor, cuando venga, encuentre haciendo así.
43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
44 De cierto les digo que lo pondrá sobre todos sus bienes.
44 Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
45 Pero si aquel siervo dice en su corazón: Mi señor tarda en venir, y comienza a golpear a los siervos y a las siervas, y a comer, beber y emborracharse,
45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
46 el señor de aquel siervo vendrá en un día que él no espera, y a una hora que no sabe. Lo castigará con dureza y le dará su parte con los infieles.
46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
47 El siervo que conocía la voluntad de su señor, pero no se preparó ni hizo conforme a su voluntad, recibirá muchos golpes.
47 That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
48 Pero el que no la conocía, e hizo cosas dignas de castigo, recibirá pocos golpes. A todo aquel a quien se le dio mucho, mucho se le pedirá; y al que mucho se le confió, más se le demandará.
48 but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
49 Vine a echar fuego sobre la tierra; ¡y cuánto quisiera que ya estuviera encendido!
49 “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
50 Pero tengo que ser bautizado con un bautismo, ¡y cuánta angustia siento hasta que se cumpla!
50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
51 ¿Piensan que vine a traer paz a la tierra? Les digo que no, sino división.
51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
52 Porque desde ahora, cinco en una casa estarán divididos: tres contra dos, y dos contra tres.
52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
53 Estarán divididos el padre contra el hijo, y el hijo contra el padre; la madre contra la hija, y la hija contra la madre; la suegra contra su nuera, y la nuera contra su suegra.
53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
54 También decía a la gente: Cuando ven una nube que sale del occidente, enseguida dicen: Viene lluvia; y así sucede.
54 He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.
55 Y cuando sopla el viento del sur, dicen: Hará calor; y sucede.
55 When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
56 ¡Hipócritas! Saben distinguir el aspecto de la tierra y del cielo, pero ¿cómo no saben distinguir este tiempo?
56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?
57 ¿Por qué no juzgan ustedes mismos lo que es justo?
57 “Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
58 Cuando vayas con tu adversario ante el magistrado, procura arreglarte con él en el camino; no sea que te arrastre ante el juez, el juez te entregue al guardia, y el guardia te meta en la cárcel.
58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
59 Te digo que no saldrás de allí hasta que hayas pagado la última moneda.
59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid the very last penny.”
Cross references (58)
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- 1 1 Corinthians 5:7–8; 1 Peter 2:1; James 3:17; Matthew 16:6–12; Mark 8:15–21
- 2 Mark 4:22; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Luke 8:17; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Matthew 10:26–33
- 3 Matthew 10:27; Ecclesiastes 10:20; Matthew 12:36; Ecclesiastes 10:12–13; Job 24:14–15
- 4 Matthew 10:28; Jeremiah 1:8; Revelation 2:10; Philippians 1:28; 1 Peter 3:14
- 5 2 Peter 2:4; Matthew 10:28; Revelation 14:7; Psalm 9:17; Hebrews 10:31
- 6 Luke 12:24; Psalm 147:9; Psalm 145:15–16; Matthew 10:29; Psalm 113:5–6
- 7 Matthew 10:30–31; Matthew 6:26; Isaiah 43:3–4; 2 Samuel 14:11; Luke 21:18
- 8 Matthew 10:32–33; 1 John 2:23; Romans 10:9–10; 2 Timothy 2:12; Luke 15:10
- 9 2 Timothy 2:12; Mark 8:38; Matthew 10:33; Luke 9:26; Matthew 7:23
- 10 Matthew 12:31–32; 1 John 5:16; 1 Timothy 1:13; Mark 3:28–30; Hebrews 6:4–8
- 11 Matthew 10:17–20; Acts 4:5–7; Luke 12:22; Luke 21:12–14; Matthew 23:34
- 12 Luke 21:15; Matthew 10:20; Acts 4:8; Acts 6:10; Exodus 4:11
- 13 1 Timothy 6:5; Luke 6:45; Ezekiel 33:31; Acts 8:18–19; Psalm 17:14
- 14 Romans 9:20; Romans 2:3; John 6:15; Exodus 2:14; Romans 2:1
- 15 Hebrews 13:5; 1 Timothy 6:6–10; Psalm 119:36–37; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 15:16
- 16 Genesis 26:12–14; Genesis 41:47–49; Hosea 2:8; Psalm 73:12; Matthew 5:45
- 17 Matthew 5:42; Isaiah 58:7; Romans 12:13; 2 Corinthians 9:6–15; Acts 16:30
- 18 James 3:15; James 4:15; Luke 18:6; Luke 12:21; Psalm 17:14
- 19 Proverbs 27:1; James 4:13–15; Matthew 6:19–21; 1 Corinthians 15:32; Philippians 3:19
- 20 Job 27:8; Jeremiah 17:11; 1 Timothy 6:7; Psalm 39:6; James 4:14
- 21 Matthew 6:19–20; Luke 12:33; James 2:5; James 5:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:18–19
- 22 Matthew 6:25–34; Philippians 4:6; Hebrews 13:5; 1 Corinthians 7:32; Luke 12:29
- 23 Job 2:6; Proverbs 13:8; Job 2:4; Acts 27:18–19; Job 1:12
- 24 Luke 12:7; Matthew 10:31; Psalm 147:9; Job 38:41; Psalm 145:15–16
- 25 Matthew 6:27; Matthew 5:36
- 26 1 Peter 5:7; Psalm 39:6; Ecclesiastes 7:13
- 27 Matthew 6:28–30; Luke 12:24; 1 Kings 10:1–13; 2 Chronicles 9:1–12; James 1:10–11
- 28 Isaiah 40:6; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 6:30; 1 Peter 1:24; Matthew 17:20
- 29 Luke 12:22; Matthew 6:31; Luke 22:35; Luke 10:7–8
- 30 Matthew 6:32; Matthew 6:8; Ephesians 4:17; Luke 12:32; 1 Peter 4:2–4
- 31 Matthew 6:33; Hebrews 13:5; Psalm 34:9; 1 Kings 3:11–13; John 6:27
- 32 Hebrews 12:28; 1 Peter 1:3–5; Revelation 1:6; Philippians 2:13; Luke 10:21
- 33 Matthew 19:21; Acts 2:45; Luke 18:22; Acts 4:34–35; Matthew 6:19–21
- 34 Matthew 6:21; Colossians 3:1–3; Philippians 3:20
- 35 1 Peter 1:13; Ephesians 6:14; Matthew 25:4–10; Matthew 25:1; Matthew 5:16
- 36 Jude 20–21; James 5:7–8; Revelation 3:20; Lamentations 3:25–26; Isaiah 64:4
- 37 2 Peter 3:14; Matthew 24:42; John 13:4–5; Matthew 24:45–47; 1 Corinthians 2:9
- 38 1 Thessalonians 5:4–5; Matthew 25:6
- 39 Revelation 3:3; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 16:15; Matthew 24:43–44; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3
- 40 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Matthew 25:13; Romans 13:11; Matthew 24:44; Revelation 19:7
- 41 Mark 13:37; 1 Peter 4:7; Mark 14:37
- 42 Matthew 24:45–46; Hebrews 13:17; 1 Corinthians 4:1–2; 1 Peter 4:10; 1 Peter 5:1–4
- 44 Luke 22:29–30; Matthew 24:47; Luke 19:17–19; Daniel 12:2–3; Revelation 3:18
- 45 Matthew 24:48–50; Revelation 18:7–8; Ezekiel 34:8; Jeremiah 20:2; Ezekiel 12:22
- 46 Revelation 16:15; Luke 12:40; Matthew 24:51; Psalm 11:5; Psalm 37:9
- 47 James 4:17; John 9:41; John 15:22–24; John 12:48; Deuteronomy 25:2–3
- 48 James 3:1; Leviticus 5:17; Luke 16:10–12; Matthew 25:14–29; Matthew 13:12
- 49 Malachi 4:1; Matthew 3:10–12; Malachi 3:2–3; Luke 12:51–52; Joel 2:30–31
- 50 John 12:27–28; John 19:30; John 4:34; John 7:6–8; Mark 10:32–38
- 51 Matthew 10:34–36; Luke 12:49; Matthew 24:7–10; Zechariah 11:10–11; Zechariah 11:14
- 52 John 15:18–21; Acts 14:1–4; Micah 7:5–6; John 16:2; Acts 28:24
- 53 Micah 7:6; Matthew 10:21–22; Matthew 24:10; Zechariah 13:2–6
- 54 Matthew 16:2–4; 1 Kings 18:44–45
- 55 Matthew 20:12; Job 37:17
- 56 Matthew 16:3; Matthew 24:32–33; Matthew 11:25; 1 Chronicles 12:32; Luke 19:42–44
- 57 John 7:24; Deuteronomy 32:29; 1 Corinthians 11:14; Acts 13:26–38; Acts 2:40
- 58 Matthew 5:23–26; Luke 13:24–28; Job 23:7; Isaiah 55:6; Proverbs 25:8–9
- 59 Mark 12:42; Matthew 18:34; Matthew 25:46; Matthew 25:41; 2 Thessalonians 1:3
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I doubt not but that ye who fear God, do hear His word with awe, and execute it with cheerfulness; that what He hath promised, ye may at present hope for, hereafter receive. We have just now heard the Lord Christ Jesus, the Son of God, giving us a precept.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
And to this He refers when He says, "And I have another baptism to be baptized with, and I hasten eagerly towards it." Moreover, they affirm that the Lord added this redemption to the sons of Zebedee, when their mother asked that they might sit, the one on His right hand, and the other on His left, in His kingdom, …
If this be so, then that is false which Christ says, "Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do;" for it seems they can do great injury to the dead body.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
"For mighty" men (it is said) "shall be mightily tormented:" and "He that knew his Lord's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." So that more knowledge is a ground of more punishment.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And he who says again that the Father is one, and the maker of the world another, opposes the Son when He says, If then God so clothes the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the furnace of fire; and, Who maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)