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1 Al ver que la multitud se le acercaba, Jesús subió a un monte.
1 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
2 Allí se sentó, y cuando sus discípulos se le acercaron comenzó a enseñarles:
2 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
3 «¡Dichosos los que reconocen su pobreza espiritual, porque de ellos es el reino de los cielos!
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
4 ¡Dichosos los que lloran, porque serán consolados!
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 ¡Dichosos los mansos, porque el mundo entero les pertenecerá!
5 Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 ¡Dichosos los que tienen hambre y sed de justicia, porque quedarán satisfechos!
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
7 ¡Dichosos los que tienen compasión de otros, porque Dios tendrá compasión de ellos!
7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
8 ¡Dichosos los que tienen un corazón limpio, porque verán a Dios!
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 ¡Dichosos los que hacen la paz, porque serán llamados hijos de Dios!
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
10 ¡Dichosos los que sufren persecución por ser justos, porque el reino de los cielos les pertenece!
10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
11 »Dichosos ustedes cuando alguien los ofenda o persiga o diga todo tipo de mentiras contra ustedes por ser mis discípulos.
11 “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 ¡Alégrense mucho, porque en el cielo les espera una gran recompensa! Así fue como persiguieron a los profetas antiguos.
12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13 »Ustedes son la sal del mundo. Si la sal pierde el sabor, ¿para qué va a servir? ¡Sólo para que la boten y la pisoteen por inservible!
13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
14 »Ustedes son la luz del mundo. Una ciudad asentada sobre un monte no puede esconderse.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
15 Nadie enciende una lámpara para esconderla bajo un cajón, sino que la pone en alto para que alumbre a todos los que están en la casa.
15 Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
16 ¡Así dejen ustedes brillar su luz ante toda la gente! ¡Que las buenas obras que ustedes realicen brillen de tal manera que la gente adore al Padre celestial!
16 Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
17 »No vayan a creer que vine a anular la ley de Moisés y las enseñanzas de los profetas. Al contrario, vine a darles su verdadero significado.
17 “Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18 Les aseguro que mientras existan el cielo y la tierra, ni la parte más pequeña e insignificante de la ley se pasará por alto, hasta que esta se cumpla totalmente.
18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
19 Por eso, el que desobedezca el más pequeño mandamiento, y así les enseñe a los demás, se convertirá en la persona más pequeña del reino de los cielos; pero quien obedezca y enseñe los mandamientos de Dios, será grande en el reino de los cielos.
19 Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
20 Les advierto que, a menos que ustedes sean más justos que los fariseos y los maestros de la ley de Dios, no podrán entrar al reino de los cielos.
20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
21 »Ustedes saben que bajo la ley de Moisés la regla era que el que matara sería castigado.
21 “You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
22 Pues yo añado que el que se enoja contra su hermano está cometiendo el mismo delito. El que le dice “idiota” a su hermano, merece que lo lleven al juzgado. Y el que maldiga a una persona, merece ir a parar a las llamas del infierno.
22 But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
23 Por lo tanto, si mientras estás presentando tu ofrenda delante del altar, te acuerdas de pronto de que alguien tiene algo contra ti,
23 “If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
24 deja allí mismo tu ofrenda. Vete primero a reconciliarte con tu hermano y luego regresa a presentar tu ofrenda.
24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
25 Reconcíliate con tu enemigo de inmediato antes que sea demasiado tarde, te lleve a juicio y te arrojen en la cárcel.
25 Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
26 Te aseguro que tendrás que permanecer allí hasta que pagues el último centavo.
26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there until you have paid the last penny.
27 »Ustedes saben que está escrito en la ley: “No cometerás adulterio”.
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’
28 Pero yo les digo: Cualquiera que mira a una mujer y desea acostarse con ella, comete adulterio en su corazón.
28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29 Así que si uno de tus ojos te hace pecar, sácatelo y échalo lejos. Es mejor perder un miembro del cuerpo, y no que el cuerpo entero sea echado al infierno.
29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
30 Y si tu mano derecha te conduce al pecado, córtatela y échala lejos. Es mejor quedarse manco que ir al infierno.
30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
31 »También está escrito: “El que quiera separarse de su esposa, debe darle un certificado de divorcio”.
31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
32 Pero yo les digo que el hombre que se divorcia de su esposa, excepto cuando esta haya sido infiel, hace que ella cometa adulterio y que el que se case con ella también lo cometa.
32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
33 »Ustedes también saben que hace mucho se dio este mandamiento: “Cumplan lo que le juren a Dios”.
33 “Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’
34 Pero yo les digo: Nunca juren. No juren por el cielo, porque es el trono de Dios;
34 but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
35 ni juren por la tierra, porque es donde él pone sus pies; ni por Jerusalén, porque Jerusalén es la capital del gran Rey.
35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
36 Ni siquiera juren por su propia cabeza, porque no pueden volver blanco o negro ni un solo cabello.
36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.
37 Es suficiente con que digan “sí” o “no” y nada más. Si dicen algo más, seguro viene del maligno.
37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
38 »Ustedes saben que está escrito: “Ojo por ojo y diente por diente”.
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
39 Pero yo les digo: No paguen mal por mal. Si los abofetean en la mejilla derecha, presenten la otra.
39 But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 Si los llevan a juicio y les quitan la camisa, denles también el abrigo.
40 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
41 Si los obligan a llevar una carga un kilómetro, llévenla dos kilómetros.
41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
42 Denle al que les pida, y no le den la espalda al que les pida prestado.
42 Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
43 »También conocen el mandamiento que dice: “Ama a tu prójimo y odia a tu enemigo”.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44 Pero yo les digo: ¡Amen a sus enemigos! ¡Oren por quienes los persiguen!
44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
45 De esta forma estarán actuando como hijos de su Padre que está en el cielo, porque él da la luz del sol a los malos y a los buenos y envía la lluvia a los justos y a los injustos.
45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
46 Si ustedes aman sólo a los que los aman, ¿qué de extraordinario tiene eso? ¡Aun la gente mala puede hacerlo!
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
47 Y si sólo saludan a sus hermanos, ¿qué hacen de más? ¡Aun los paganos hacen eso!
47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
48 Ustedes deben ser perfectos, como su Padre que está en los cielos es perfecto.
48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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- 1 Mark 3:13; Matthew 15:29; John 6:2–3; Mark 4:1; Mark 3:20
- 2 Acts 8:35; Luke 6:20–26; Acts 10:34; Matthew 13:35; Acts 18:14
- 3 Isaiah 66:2; Proverbs 29:23; Psalm 34:18; Proverbs 16:19; Luke 18:14
- 4 Revelation 21:4; 2 Corinthians 7:9–10; Isaiah 61:2–3; John 16:20–22; Psalm 126:5–6
- 5 Psalm 37:11; Isaiah 29:19; James 3:13; Psalm 149:4; Galatians 5:23
- 6 Psalm 107:9; John 4:14; John 6:27; John 6:48–58; Psalm 145:19
- 7 Ephesians 4:32–5:1; Matthew 6:14–15; 2 Samuel 22:26; Matthew 18:33–35; Psalm 18:25
- 8 Psalm 24:4; Psalm 51:10; Hebrews 10:22; Hebrews 12:14; Ezekiel 36:25–27
- 9 Hebrews 12:14; James 3:16–18; Romans 12:18; Galatians 5:22; Psalm 120:6
- 10 James 1:12; 1 Peter 3:13–14; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Matthew 5:3; James 1:2–5
- 11 1 Peter 4:14; Luke 21:17; Mark 13:13; Matthew 24:9; Luke 6:22
- 12 Luke 6:23; James 1:2; Colossians 3:24; 1 Peter 4:13; Colossians 1:24
- 13 Colossians 4:6; Luke 14:34–35; Mark 9:49–50; Leviticus 2:13; Hebrews 6:4–6
- 14 Philippians 2:15; John 8:12; Ephesians 5:8–14; 1 Thessalonians 5:5; Proverbs 4:18
- 15 Luke 11:33; Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16; Numbers 8:2; Exodus 25:37
- 16 1 Peter 2:12; Titus 2:7; John 15:8; 1 John 1:5–7; Philippians 2:15–16
- 17 Romans 10:4; Luke 16:17; Galatians 4:4–5; Romans 3:31; Romans 8:4
- 18 Luke 16:17; Isaiah 40:8; 1 Peter 1:25; Psalm 119:89–90; Matthew 24:34–35
- 19 Deuteronomy 12:32; James 2:10–11; Matthew 28:20; Romans 13:8–10; Matthew 11:11
- 20 Romans 10:2–3; Philippians 3:9; Romans 9:30–32; Luke 16:14–15; Matthew 23:2–5
- 21 Deuteronomy 5:17; Exodus 20:13; Numbers 35:30–34; Exodus 21:12–14; Numbers 35:16–21
- 22 1 John 3:14–15; 1 John 4:20–21; 1 John 2:9; Ephesians 4:26–27; Ephesians 4:31–32
- 23 Mark 11:25; Leviticus 6:2–6; Matthew 5:24; Matthew 23:19; Matthew 8:4
- 24 James 5:16; Romans 12:17–18; Matthew 18:15–17; Job 42:8; 1 Peter 3:7–8
- 25 Luke 12:58–59; Proverbs 25:8; Luke 14:31–32; Hebrews 3:13; Isaiah 55:6–7
- 26 Matthew 18:34; Luke 12:59; James 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Luke 16:26
- 27 Deuteronomy 5:18; Proverbs 6:32; Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22–24
- 28 James 1:14–15; 1 John 2:16; Proverbs 6:25; Exodus 20:17; 2 Samuel 11:2
- 29 Mark 9:43–48; Romans 8:13; Colossians 3:5; Romans 6:6; 1 Peter 4:1–3
- 30 Mark 9:43; Matthew 5:29; 1 Peter 2:8; Romans 14:20–21; Matthew 18:6–7
- 31 Jeremiah 3:1; Deuteronomy 24:1–4; Matthew 19:7; Mark 10:2–9; Matthew 19:3
- 32 Romans 7:3; Luke 16:18; 1 Corinthians 7:10–11; 1 Corinthians 7:4; Matthew 19:8–9
- 33 Deuteronomy 23:21; Leviticus 19:12; Ecclesiastes 5:4–6; Deuteronomy 23:23; Psalm 76:11
- 34 James 5:12; Isaiah 66:1; Deuteronomy 23:21–23; Matthew 23:16–22; Ecclesiastes 9:2
- 35 Psalm 48:2; Malachi 1:14; Revelation 21:10; 2 Chronicles 6:6; Psalm 99:5
- 36 Luke 12:25; Matthew 6:27; Matthew 23:16–21
- 37 James 5:12; Colossians 4:6; Colossians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 1:17–20; John 8:44
- 38 Leviticus 24:19–20; Deuteronomy 19:21; Exodus 21:22–27; Deuteronomy 19:19
- 39 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Peter 3:9; Romans 12:17–19; Proverbs 20:22; Luke 6:29–30
- 40 Luke 6:29; 1 Corinthians 6:7
- 41 Luke 23:26
- 42 Proverbs 19:17; Hebrews 13:16; Luke 6:30–36; 1 Timothy 6:17–19; Psalm 112:5–9
- 43 Leviticus 19:18; Psalm 139:21–22; Galatians 5:13–14; Matthew 19:19; Romans 13:8–10
- 44 Romans 12:14; 1 Peter 3:9; Luke 6:27–28; Romans 12:20–21; Proverbs 25:21–22
- 45 Psalm 145:9; Luke 6:35; Acts 14:17; Job 25:3; Ephesians 5:1
- 46 Luke 6:32–35; 1 Peter 2:20–23; Matthew 11:19; Matthew 9:10–11; Matthew 18:17
- 47 Luke 6:32; Matthew 5:20; 1 Peter 2:20; Luke 10:4–5
- 48 1 Peter 1:15–16; James 1:4; Leviticus 19:2; Ephesians 5:1–2; Luke 6:36
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