1 Corinthians · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
1 Corinthians 4 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Así que, considérenos los hombres como esclavos de Cristo y administradores de los secretos de Dios no revelados.
1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
2 Además, se requiere de los administradores que cada uno sea fiel.
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
3 Para mí es de poca importancia que sea evaluado por ustedes o por tribunal humano. Ni siquiera me evalúo a mí mismo.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
4 Porque de [nada de esto] estoy consciente, de nada puedo justificarme. Sin embargo, el Señor es Quien me evalúa.
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
5 Así que, no juzguen algo antes de tiempo. Esperen hasta que venga [el] Señor, Quien demostrará lo escondido en la oscuridad y los motivos de los corazones. Entonces cada uno recibirá la aprobación de Dios.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
6 Hermanos, estas cosas me las apliqué a mí mismo y a Apolos por causa de ustedes, para que por medio de nosotros aprendan a no pensar más allá de lo que está escrito a fin de que no sean arrogantes [los] unos contra [los] otros.
6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
7 Porque ¿quién te considera superior? ¿Qué tienes que no recibiste? Y si lo recibiste, ¿por qué te enorgulleces como si no lo hubieras recibido?
7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
8 Ya están saciados. Ya enriquecieron. Ya reinaron sin nosotros. ¡Ojalá reinen para que nosotros también reinemos con ustedes!
8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
9 Porque pienso que Dios nos exhibió a [los] apóstoles en último lugar, como a sentenciados a muerte, porque fuimos un espectáculo para el mundo, para [los] ángeles y para [los] seres humanos.
9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
10 Nosotros somos necios por causa de Cristo, pero ustedes, prudentes en Cristo. Nosotros somos débiles, pero ustedes, fuertes; ustedes, honrados, pero a nosotros se nos deshonra.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
11 Hasta ahora padecemos hambre y sed, nos vestimos pobremente, se nos golpea a puñetazos, no tenemos dónde vivir,
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
12 luchamos y trabajamos con las propias manos. Cuando nos maldicen, bendecimos. Cuando nos persiguen, soportamos.
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
13 Cuando somos difamados, respondemos con bondad. Hasta ahora somos como la escoria del mundo, desecho de todos.
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
14 No les escribo esto para avergonzarlos, sino para amonestarlos como a hijos míos amados.
14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15 Porque ustedes, aunque tuvieran 10.000 maestros en Cristo, no [tienen] muchos padres, porque en Cristo Jesús yo soy su padre por medio de las Buenas Noticias.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
16 Por tanto los exhorto: Sean imitadores de mí.
16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
17 Por esto les envío a Timoteo, quien es mi hijo amado y fiel en el Señor, el cual les recordará mi manera de actuar en Cristo, cómo enseño en toda iglesia dondequiera.
17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
18 Y algunos se envanecieron porque yo no los visito.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19 Pero los visitaré pronto cuando el Señor quiera y no conoceré las palabras de los envanecidos, sino su poder.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
20 Porque el reino de Dios no consiste en palabras, sino en poder.
20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
21 ¿Quieren que vaya a ustedes con vara, o con amor y espíritu de mansedumbre?
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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Timothy
A disciple from Lystra with a Greek father and a believing Jewish mother, whom Paul circumcised and took with him as a coworker; he received two letters from Paul.
Cited in the guide: Acts 16:1; 1 Corinthians 4:17; Philippians 2:19
Cross references (21)
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- 1 1 Peter 4:10; Titus 1:7; 1 Timothy 3:9; Ephesians 6:19; 2 Corinthians 4:5
- 2 Matthew 25:21; Luke 12:42; Luke 16:10–12; Colossians 4:17; Numbers 12:7
- 3 John 7:24; 1 Corinthians 2:15; 1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Corinthians 3:13
- 4 Psalm 143:2; 1 John 3:20–21; Psalm 130:3; Proverbs 21:2; Psalm 19:12
- 5 James 5:7; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 3:13; Hebrews 4:13; 2 Corinthians 10:18
- 6 2 Corinthians 11:4; 2 Corinthians 12:19; 2 Corinthians 12:6; Colossians 2:18; Romans 12:3
- 7 John 3:27; 1 Peter 4:10; James 1:17; 1 Chronicles 29:11–16; John 1:16
- 8 Proverbs 13:7; Romans 12:3; Luke 6:25; 1 Corinthians 5:6; 2 Corinthians 13:9
- 9 Hebrews 10:33; 2 Corinthians 4:8–12; Romans 8:36; 2 Corinthians 1:8–10; 1 Corinthians 15:30–32
- 10 1 Corinthians 2:3; Acts 26:24; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 13:9; Acts 17:18
- 11 Romans 8:35; Philippians 4:12; 2 Corinthians 11:23–27; Matthew 8:20; 2 Timothy 3:11
- 12 1 Peter 3:9; Romans 12:14; Matthew 5:11; 1 Peter 4:12–14; Luke 6:28
- 13 Lamentations 3:45; Acts 22:22
- 14 1 Thessalonians 2:11; 3 John 4; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Corinthians 4:15; Colossians 1:28
- 15 1 Corinthians 3:10; Galatians 4:19; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 Corinthians 9:14; 1 Corinthians 9:23
- 16 1 Corinthians 11:1; Philippians 3:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; Hebrews 13:7
- 17 1 Timothy 1:2; 1 Corinthians 16:10; 1 Corinthians 7:17; 2 Timothy 1:2; 1 Corinthians 16:1
- 18 1 Corinthians 5:2; 1 Corinthians 4:6–8; 1 Corinthians 4:21
- 19 2 Corinthians 13:1–4; Acts 18:21; Acts 19:21; 1 Corinthians 11:34; 1 Corinthians 2:6
- 20 1 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 10:4–5; Romans 14:17; Romans 1:16
- 21 2 Corinthians 13:2; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 12:20–21; James 3:17
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Together with all other ills, I know not how, there hath come upon man's nature the disease of restless prying and of unseasonable curiosity, which Christ Himself chastised, saying, (St. Matt. vii. 1.) "Judge not, that ye be not judged." A kind of thing, which hath no pleasure as all other sins have, but only punishment and vengeance.
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… not one thing in one place, and another in another; according to which Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and David, and all those commended by the mouth of God were righteous, but were judged unrighteous by foolish men, judging out of man's judgment, and gauging by the petty standard of their own manners the manners of the whole …
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… is against our will; but nevertheless it doth not escape punishment, but of it too we have to give account:--both of what we know, and of what we do not know; "For I know nothing by myself," saith one, "yet am I not hereby justified:" --both for what we have done in ignorance, and what in knowledge; "For I bear …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And the Martyrs confess, by being made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men; and thou wilt soon confess:--but it is not yet the time for thee to hear of this.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
7. For it is Thou, Lord, that judgest me; for although no "man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him," yet is there something of man which "the spirit of man which is in him" itself knoweth not.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)