1 Corinthians · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
1 Corinthians 14 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Sigan el amor y procuren los dones espirituales, pero sobre todo que profeticen.
1 Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 El que habla en lenguas, habla a Dios, no a los hombres, porque nadie [lo] entiende, pues en [su] espíritu habla misterios.
2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God, for no one understands, but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 Pero el que profetiza, habla a [los] hombres para edificación, exhortación y consolación.
3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
4 El que habla en lenguas se edifica él mismo, pero el que profetiza edifica a [la] iglesia.
4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
5 Entonces deseo que todos ustedes hablen en lenguas, pero más que profeticen, pues mayor es el que profetiza que el que habla en lenguas, a menos que interprete para que la iglesia sea edificada.
5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but even more that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
6 Ahora, hermanos, si los visito y hablo en lenguas, ¿qué les aprovecharía si no les hablo con revelación, conocimiento, profecía o enseñanza?
6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
7 Aun las cosas inanimadas que dan sonido, como la flauta o el arpa, si no producen sonidos distintos, ¿cómo se sabrá lo que se toca con la flauta o se tañe con el arpa?
7 Even lifeless things that make a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
8 De igual manera, si una trompeta no da sonido claro, ¿quién se prepararía para la batalla?
8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
9 Así también ustedes, si por medio de la lengua no dan palabra fácilmente comprensible, ¿cómo entenderán lo que se habla? Porque hablarían al aire.
9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
10 Sin duda, ¡cuántas clases de lenguas hay en el mundo, y ninguna carece de significado!
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
11 Si, pues, no entiendo el significado de las palabras, seré un extranjero para el que habla, y el que habla, un extranjero para mí.
11 If then I don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
12 Así también ustedes, puesto que anhelan [dones] espirituales, procuren abundar para la edificación de la iglesia.
12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
13 Por tanto, el que habla en lengua, hable con Dios para que interprete.
13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
14 Cuando hablo con Dios en una lengua, mi espíritu comunica, pero mi entendimiento queda sin provecho.
14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 ¿Entonces, qué [digo]? Hablaré con Dios con el espíritu, pero también hablaré con el entendimiento. Cantaré alabanza con el espíritu, pero también cantaré con el entendimiento.
15 What should I do? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16 De otra manera, cuando bendigas en espíritu, el que quiere entender, ¿cómo dirá amén a tu acción de gracias si no sabe [lo] que dices?
16 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
17 Porque tú, ciertamente, expresas bien la acción de gracias, pero el otro no es edificado.
17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
18 Doy gracias a Dios que hablo en lenguas más que todos ustedes,
18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
19 pero en la iglesia prefiero hablar cinco palabras con mi entendimiento para instruir también a otros, que 10.000 palabras en lengua desconocida.
19 However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
20 Hermanos, no sean niños en el entendimiento. Sean niños en la perversidad, pero maduros en el entendimiento.
20 Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
21 En la Ley está escrito: Hablaré a este pueblo en lenguas extrañas y por medio de otros. Ni aun así me escucharán, dice el Señor.
21 In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”
22 Por tanto, las lenguas no son señal para los que creen, sino para los incrédulos. Pero profetizar no [es señal] para los incrédulos, sino para los que creen.
22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
23 De manera que si toda la iglesia se congrega en un lugar y todos hablan en lenguas, y entran unos incrédulos o unos que no tienen [ese] don, ¿no dirán que están locos?
23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?
24 Pero si todos profetizan y entra algún incrédulo que quiere entender, queda expuesto, llamado a cuentas por todos.
24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
25 Los secretos de su corazón son manifiestos, y así se postrará sobre el rostro, adorará a Dios y confesará que Dios está verdaderamente entre ustedes.
25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
26 ¿Entonces, hermanos, qué [significa esto]? Cuando se reúnan, cada uno tiene salmo, enseñanza, revelación, lengua o interpretación. Hagan todo para edificación.
26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
27 Si se habla en lengua, que sean dos, o a lo más tres, y uno después de otro, y uno interprete.
27 If any man speaks in another language, let there be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
28 Cuando no haya intérprete, calle en [la] iglesia. Hable para él mismo y a Dios.
28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.
29 Hablen dos o tres profetas, y los demás evalúen.
29 Let two or three of the prophets speak, and let the others discern.
30 Si a otro que está sentado se le revela [algo], calle el primero.
30 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
31 Porque todos pueden hablar uno por uno, para que todos aprendan y sean exhortados.
31 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be exhorted.
32 Los espíritus de los profetas están subordinados a los profetas.
32 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
33 Porque Dios no es de desorden, sino de paz. Como en todas las iglesias de los santos,
33 for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
34 las mujeres callen en las congregaciones, porque no les es permitido hablar. Sean obedientes, como también dice la Ley.
34 Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
35 Si quieren aprender algo, pregunten en casa a sus esposos, porque es impropio que una mujer hable en la congregación.
35 if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”
36 ¿Salió de ustedes la Palabra de Dios, o solo llegó a ustedes?
36 What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
37 Si alguno supone que es profeta o espiritual, reconozca las cosas que les escribo, porque es Mandamiento del Señor.
37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
38 Pero si alguno hace caso omiso, que sea ignorado.
38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Así que, hermanos, procuren profetizar. No impidan hablar en lenguas.
39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.
40 Pero hagan todo decentemente y con orden.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
Cross references (38)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Timothy 4:14; 1 Corinthians 14:39; 1 Corinthians 16:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:20; 1 Corinthians 12:1
- 2 Mark 16:17; Acts 19:6; Acts 10:46; Acts 2:4–11; 1 Corinthians 13:2
- 3 1 Timothy 4:13; 1 Corinthians 14:12; Jude 20; 2 Timothy 4:2; Ephesians 6:22
- 4 1 Corinthians 14:22; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 14:17–19; 1 Corinthians 14:3
- 5 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28–30; 1 Corinthians 13:1; Numbers 11:28–29; Mark 16:17
- 6 Ephesians 1:17; 2 Timothy 3:16; Romans 6:17; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 2 John 9
- 7 1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 14:8; Numbers 10:2–10; Matthew 11:17; Luke 7:32
- 8 Numbers 10:9; Ezekiel 33:3–6; Jeremiah 4:19; Joel 2:1; Amos 3:6
- 9 1 Corinthians 9:26
- 11 Acts 28:2; Romans 1:14; Acts 28:4; 1 Corinthians 14:21; Colossians 3:11
- 12 1 Corinthians 14:26; 1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 14:3–4; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Corinthians 12:7
- 13 Mark 11:24; John 14:13–14; 1 Corinthians 12:30; Acts 1:14; 1 Corinthians 14:27–28
- 14 1 Corinthians 14:2; 1 Corinthians 14:15–16; 1 Corinthians 14:19
- 15 Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 6:18; John 4:23–24; Ephesians 5:17–20; Jude 20
- 16 1 Chronicles 16:36; Psalm 106:48; Revelation 5:14; Deuteronomy 27:15–26; Nehemiah 8:6
- 17 1 Corinthians 14:4; 1 Corinthians 14:6
- 18 1 Corinthians 1:4–6; 1 Corinthians 4:7
- 19 1 Corinthians 14:21–22; 1 Corinthians 14:4
- 20 1 Peter 2:2; 1 Corinthians 13:11; Romans 16:19; Matthew 18:3; 2 Peter 3:18
- 21 Isaiah 28:11–12; Jeremiah 5:15; Deuteronomy 28:49
- 22 Acts 2:6–12; Mark 16:17; 1 Timothy 1:9; 1 Corinthians 14:1; Acts 2:32–36
- 23 Acts 2:13; 1 Corinthians 11:18; John 10:20; Acts 26:24; Hosea 9:7
- 24 Hebrews 4:12–13; Acts 2:37; 1 Corinthians 2:15; John 4:29; John 1:47–49
- 25 Isaiah 45:14; Zechariah 8:23; Psalm 72:11; Luke 17:16; Revelation 5:8
- 26 Ephesians 5:19; Romans 14:19; 1 Corinthians 12:7–10; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Ephesians 4:16
- 27 1 Corinthians 14:26
- 29 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:19–21; 1 John 4:1–3; 1 Corinthians 14:39
- 30 1 Thessalonians 5:19–20; Job 33:31–33; Job 32:11; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Job 32:15–20
- 31 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Proverbs 1:5; 1 Corinthians 14:35
- 32 1 John 4:1; Acts 4:19–20; 1 Corinthians 14:29–30; 2 Kings 2:5; 1 Samuel 10:10–13
- 33 James 3:17–18; 1 Corinthians 14:40; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Galatians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 11:16
- 34 1 Timothy 2:11–12; Genesis 3:16; Numbers 30:3–13; Colossians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 14:35
- 35 1 Peter 3:7; Ephesians 5:12; Ephesians 5:25–27; 1 Corinthians 11:14; 1 Corinthians 11:6
- 36 Zechariah 14:8; Acts 18:1–17; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; Isaiah 2:3; Acts 17:1
- 37 1 John 4:6; 2 Corinthians 10:7; 2 Peter 3:2; Jude 17; 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8
- 38 2 Timothy 4:3–4; 1 Timothy 6:3–5; Matthew 7:6; Revelation 22:11–12; Hosea 4:17
- 39 1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:20; 1 Corinthians 14:24–25; 1 Corinthians 14:5
- 40 Colossians 2:5; Titus 1:5; 1 Corinthians 14:26–33; 1 Corinthians 11:34; Romans 13:13
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“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).
Thus, inasmuch as he had with exactness rehearsed unto them all the excellence of love, he exhorts them in what follows, with alacrity to lay hold of it.
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Is it not those who love God, and who believe His promises, and who "in malice have become as little children?"
… is from heaven;" and calleth upon this lower deep, saying, "Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." And, "Be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children," that in "understanding ye may be perfect;" and "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?" But now not in his own voice, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For signs are "not for them that believe, but for them that believe not." But why in the fashion of a dove?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For the clouds which are the Prophets were removed from them, and are for the future in the Church; as Paul says, Let the Prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge; and again, God gave in the Church, some, Apostles, and some, Prophets.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)