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1 Yo soy libre, soy apóstol, he visto al Señor con mis propios ojos y ustedes son el fruto de mi trabajo en el Señor.
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
2 Sin embargo, hay quienes dicen que no soy apóstol. Pues si para otros no lo soy, para ustedes sí, porque ustedes son la señal que legitima mi tarea como apóstol en el Señor.
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 Para los que ponen en duda mis legítimos derechos, diré lo siguiente:
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 ¿Tendré o no tendré derecho de recibir comida?
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 ¿No tengo derecho a tener una esposa y llevarla en mis viajes, como hacen los demás apóstoles, los hermanos del Señor y Pedro?
5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 ¿O es que los únicos que en la obra de Dios tienen que trabajar por su cuenta para ganarse el sustento somos Bernabé y yo?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 ¿Qué soldado tiene que sostenerse a sí mismo mientras sirve en el ejército? ¿A qué agricultor se priva del derecho de comer de lo que ha cosechado? ¿A qué pastor de ovejas no se le permite tomar de la leche del rebaño?
7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
8 Y no crean que sólo desde un punto de vista humano digo esto. La ley de Dios lo afirma también.
8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9 En efecto, la ley que Dios dio a Moisés dice: «No se debe poner bozal al buey para evitar que coma del trigo que está trillando». ¿Creen que Dios tenía en mente sólo a los bueyes cuando dijo esto?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
10 ¿No estaría pensando también en nosotros? ¡Claro que sí! A los que aran y trillan debe permitírseles alentar la esperanza de recibir parte de la cosecha.
10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
11 Nosotros hemos plantado la semilla espiritual en ustedes. ¿Será demasiado pedir que, a cambio, recibamos de ustedes el sustento material?
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 Si otros disfrutan de este privilegio de recibir de ustedes el sustento, ¿cuánto más deberíamos disfrutarlo nosotros? Sin embargo, jamás hemos ejercido este derecho; al contrario, soportamos todo con tal de no poner obstáculos al evangelio de Cristo.
12 If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
13 Dios dijo a los que servían en el templo que podían tomar de los alimentos que se ofrecían en el templo; y a los que trabajaban en el altar, que participaran de lo que se presentaba en el altar.
13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
14 De igual manera, el Señor ha ordenado que los que predican el evangelio vivan de ese trabajo.
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 Sin embargo, jamás les he pedido ni un centavo y no les estoy escribiendo para que de ahora en adelante me den dinero. En realidad, prefiero morirme antes que perder la satisfacción de predicarles gratuitamente.
15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
16 No me enorgullezco de predicar las buenas noticias, porque tengo esa encomienda como una obligación y ¡ay de mí si no anuncio el evangelio!
16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
17 Si lo hiciera por voluntad propia, recompensa tendría del Señor; pero ese no es el caso, porque Dios me escogió y me dio esta sagrada encomienda.
17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
18 Entonces, en estas circunstancias, ¿cuál es mi recompensa? Mi recompensa es la satisfacción de predicar el evangelio sin serle una carga económica a nadie, sin demandar mis derechos.
18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
19 Aunque soy libre de todos, de todos me he hecho esclavo, para ganar a cuantos sea posible.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Cuando ando con los judíos, soy como uno de ellos para ganarlos; lo mismo hago cuando estoy con los que se someten a la ley de Moisés.
20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
21 Cuando estoy con los que no viven bajo la ley, vivo como ellos (aunque yo siempre estoy bajo la ley de Cristo), con miras a que crean.
21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
22 Cuando estoy con gente débil de conciencia, me hago como ellos también con el propósito de que crean. En otras palabras, trato de acomodarme a todas las personas a fin de salvar algunas de la manera que sea posible.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23 Hago todo esto por amor al evangelio, para participar de sus frutos.
23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 En una carrera son muchos los que corren, pero sólo uno obtiene el premio. Corran de tal modo que ganen la carrera.
24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
25 Los deportistas se someten a una estricta disciplina. Ellos lo hacen para ganar un premio que se echa a perder, mientras que nosotros nos esforzamos por obtener un premio que jamás se desvanecerá.
25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26 Por lo tanto, yo corro teniendo una meta bien clara; yo peleo para ganar, no como quien da golpes al viento.
26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
27 Más bien, como atleta, someto mi cuerpo y lo trato con rigor, no sea que, después de haber predicado a otros, yo mismo no esté en buenas condiciones y me eliminen.
27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Acts 9:17; Acts 9:3; 1 Timothy 2:7; Acts 23:11; 1 Corinthians 9:19
- 2 2 Corinthians 12:12; 2 Corinthians 3:1–3; John 6:27
- 3 Acts 25:16; 2 Timothy 4:16; Philippians 1:7; Acts 22:1; Philippians 1:17
- 4 1 Thessalonians 2:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; Luke 10:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; Matthew 10:10
- 5 John 1:42; Matthew 8:14; 1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Corinthians 7:7; Galatians 1:19
- 6 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9; Acts 13:1–2; Acts 18:3; Acts 4:36; 1 Thessalonians 2:9
- 7 Proverbs 27:18; Deuteronomy 20:6; 2 Timothy 2:3–4; 1 Corinthians 3:6–8; 1 Timothy 1:18
- 8 Romans 6:19; Isaiah 8:20; 1 Corinthians 14:34; Romans 3:31; 1 Corinthians 7:40
- 9 Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Timothy 5:18; Psalm 104:27; Psalm 145:15–16; Jonah 4:11
- 10 Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 2:6; Romans 4:23–24; 2 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Corinthians 3:9
- 11 Romans 15:27; Galatians 6:6; Matthew 10:10; 2 Corinthians 11:15; Malachi 3:8–9
- 12 2 Corinthians 11:12; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Corinthians 11:7–10; 1 Thessalonians 2:6–9
- 13 Numbers 5:9–10; Leviticus 6:26; Numbers 18:8–20; 1 Samuel 2:28; 1 Corinthians 10:18
- 14 Matthew 10:10; 1 Timothy 5:17–18; 1 Corinthians 9:4; Galatians 6:6; Luke 10:7
- 15 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 9:12; 2 Corinthians 11:9–12; Acts 20:34
- 16 Romans 1:14; Jeremiah 20:9; Colossians 4:17; Luke 9:62; Acts 4:20
- 17 Galatians 2:7; 1 Corinthians 3:8; Colossians 1:25; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Matthew 10:41
- 18 2 Corinthians 11:7–9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 1 Corinthians 10:33; 1 Corinthians 8:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:6
- 19 Galatians 5:13; Matthew 18:15; 1 Corinthians 10:33; James 5:19–20; Matthew 20:26–28
- 20 Acts 16:3; Galatians 5:18; Acts 21:20–26; Acts 17:2–3; Acts 18:18
- 21 Romans 2:12; Galatians 3:2; Romans 2:14; Matthew 5:17–20; 1 Corinthians 7:19–22
- 22 1 Corinthians 10:33; Romans 15:1; 1 Corinthians 9:19; Romans 11:14; Galatians 6:1
- 23 2 Timothy 2:10; 1 Corinthians 9:25–27; Mark 8:35; 1 John 1:3; Galatians 2:5
- 24 Philippians 3:14; Hebrews 12:1; 2 Timothy 4:7–8; Revelation 3:11; Philippians 2:16
- 25 2 Timothy 2:5; Revelation 2:10; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7–8; James 1:12
- 26 2 Timothy 2:5; 2 Peter 1:10; Philippians 1:21; Colossians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:12
- 27 Romans 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:25; Colossians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 13:5–6; 1 Peter 2:11
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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).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… candle on a candlestick, when he says, "So fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I preach to others, I myself should be found a castaway." When He says, however, "that it may give light to all who are in the …
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