1 Corinthians · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
1 Corinthians 9 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 ¿No soy libre? ¿No soy apóstol? ¿No vi a Jesús nuestro Señor? ¿No son ustedes [resultado 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 Si para otros no soy apóstol, para ustedes ciertamente lo soy, porque ustedes son mi sello del apostolado 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 Esta es mi defensa ante los que me acusan:
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 ¿No tenemos derecho de comer y beber?
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 ¿No tenemos derecho de llevar con nosotros a una esposa creyente, como también los demás apóstoles, los hermanos del Señor y Cefas?
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 ¿Yo y Bernabé no tenemos derecho a dejar de trabajar?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 ¿Quién se ofrece jamás para un servicio militar y paga sus propios gastos? ¿Quién planta una viña y no come el fruto de ella? ¿O quién apacienta un rebaño y no participa 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 ¿Digo esto como humano? ¿No lo dice también la Ley?
8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9 Porque en la Ley de Moisés está escrito: No pondrás bozal a un buey que trilla. ¿Tiene Dios cuidado de los bueyes?
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 ¿O lo dice ciertamente por causa de nosotros? Está escrito por causa de nosotros. Porque el que ara y el que trilla esperan participar [del fruto].
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 Si nosotros sembramos en ustedes lo espiritual, ¿será mucho si cosechamos de ustedes lo material?
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 Si otros participan del derecho de ustedes, ¿no [tenemos] más [derecho] nosotros? Pero no nos aprovechamos de este derecho, sino soportamos todo, para no causar algún obstáculo a las Buenas Noticias 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 ¿No saben que los que trabajan en las cosas del Templo, comen del Templo? ¿Y los que sirven en el altar comen de lo que se sacrifica 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 Así también el Señor ordenó que los que predican las Buenas Noticias, vivan de las Buenas Noticias.
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 Pero yo no aproveché algo de esto, ni lo escribo para que lo hagan conmigo. Porque prefiero morir y no que alguien me quite este [motivo de] satisfacción.
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 Porque si predico las Buenas Noticias, no tengo alguna razón para sentirme orgulloso, pues tengo la obligación de hacerlo. ¡Ay de mí si no predico las Buenas Noticias!
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 Pues si lo hago por [mi] propia voluntad, tengo recompensa. Sin embargo, si [lo hago] porque me fue impuesto, significa que se me confió una administración.
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 ¿Cuál, pues, es mi recompensa? Que al predicar las Buenas Noticias, las ofrezco gratuitamente, para no hacer pleno uso de mi derecho en la predicación de ellas.
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 Entonces, aunque soy libre de todos, asumí la función de esclavo de todos a fin de ganar a muchos.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Para los judíos asumí la función de judío a fin de ganar a [los] judíos, para los que están bajo [la] Ley, como si estuviera bajo [la ]Ley, aunque yo no estoy bajo ella, a fin de ganar a los que están bajo [la] Ley.
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 Para los que están sin [la ]Ley, asumí la función de los que están sin [la ]Ley, aunque yo no estoy sin [la ]Ley de Dios, sino sujeto a [la ]Ley de Cristo, a fin de ganar a los que están sin [la ]Ley.
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 Para los débiles asumí la función de débil a fin de ganar a los débiles. Para todos asumí la función de todos, a fin de salvar a algunos de algún modo.
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 por causa de las Buenas Noticias para participar de ellas.
23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 ¿No saben que en un estadio todos en verdad corren, pero uno solo recibe el premio? ¡Corran de tal modo que [lo] obtengan!
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 Todo el que lucha se abstiene de todo. Ellos ciertamente se abstienen para recibir una corona perecedera, pero nosotros, imperecedera.
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 Así que, yo corro de este modo, con una meta definida. De esta manera lucho, no como el que golpea [el] aire.
26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
27 Al contrario, golpeo y esclavizo mi cuerpo, no sea que, después de predicar a otros, yo mismo sea descalificado.
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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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).
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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).
Inasmuch as he had said, "If meat make my brother to stumble I will eat no flesh forever;" a thing which he had not yet done, but professed he would do if need require: lest any man should say, "Thou vauntest thyself at random, and art severe in discourse, and utterest words of promise, a thing easy to me or …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
But I so run, not as uncertainty; I fight, not as one beating the air; but I make my body livid, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, when preaching to others, I may myself be rendered a castaway." This able wrestler, therefore, exhorts us to the struggle for immortality, that we may be crowned, and may deem …
But now is necessity sweet unto me, and against this sweetness do I fight, lest I be enthralled; and I carry on a daily war by fasting, oftentimes "bringing my body into subjection," and my pains are expelled by pleasure.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… said, "Go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice." Thus doth Paul also: when he had first established his reasoning by illustrations from common things, and had said, "Who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk thereof?" then he brings in the Scriptures also, saying, "It is written in the law of …
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 …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)