1 Thessalonians · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
1 Thessalonians 2 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Porque ustedes mismos saben, hermanos, que nuestra visita a ustedes no fue en vano,
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
2 pues supieron que después de sufrir y ser maltratados en Filipos, [confiados] en nuestro Dios, tuvimos el valor de proclamarles las Buenas Noticias en medio de gran lucha.
2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
3 Así que nuestra exhortación no fue errada, impura o engañosa,
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
4 sino por la aprobación de Dios, Quien nos confió las Buenas Noticias. Así hablamos, no como los que agradan a [los] hombres, sino a Dios, Quien prueba nuestros corazones.
4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
5 Como saben, no hablamos con palabras halagadoras, ni con deseo de lucrar. Dios es Testigo.
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
6 Ni buscamos honor de [los] hombres, ni de ustedes ni de otros.
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
7 Aunque podríamos insistir en nuestra importancia como apóstoles de Cristo, más bien fuimos en medio de ustedes como una madre de crianza que acaricia a sus propios hijos.
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 De este modo, al tener un profundo afecto por ustedes, nos sentimos complacidos por impartirles las Buenas Noticias de Dios y también nuestras propias vidas, porque llegaron a sernos muy amados.
8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
9 Hermanos, recuerden nuestra fatiga y arduo trabajo al ocuparnos de noche y de día para no ser carga a ninguno de ustedes. Así les proclamamos las Buenas Noticias de Dios.
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
10 Ustedes y Dios son testigos de nuestra conducta santa, justa e intachable con ustedes los que creen.
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
11 También saben de qué modo tratamos a cada uno de ustedes, como un padre a sus hijos,
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
12 al exhortarlos, animarlos y rogarles que tuvieran una conducta digna del Dios que los llama a su mismo reino y gloria.
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
13 Por esto también nosotros damos gracias a Dios incesantemente, porque cuando oyeron de nosotros [la] Palabra de [la ]predicación de Dios, [la] recibieron, no [como] palabra de hombres, sino como lo que verdaderamente es, Palabra de Dios, la cual obra en ustedes los que creen.
13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
14 Hermanos, ustedes fueron imitadores de las iglesias de Dios en Cristo Jesús de Judea. Porque también ustedes padecieron las mismas cosas por medio de sus propios compatriotas, como ellos de los judíos.
14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
15 De igual manera, éstos, después de matar al Señor Jesús y a los profetas, de perseguirnos severamente y de no agradar a Dios, son hostiles a todos los hombres.
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
16 Nos prohíben hablar a los gentiles para que sean salvos, a fin de llenar siempre la medida de sus pecados. Pero la máxima ira llegó sobre ellos.
16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
17 Nosotros, hermanos, al estar separados de ustedes por breve tiempo, de presencia, no de corazón, deseábamos ardientemente ver su rostro.
17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
18 Porque ciertamente quisimos ir a ustedes, yo, Pablo, más de una vez, pero Satanás nos estorbó.
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
19 Pues ¿cuál es nuestra esperanza, o regocijo, o corona de satisfacción? ¿No son ustedes delante de nuestro Señor Jesús en su venida?
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
20 Ustedes son el resplandor y el gozo nuestro.
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Philippians 2:16; Habakkuk 2:13; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 15:2
- 2 Acts 4:13; Acts 16:22–24; 2 Timothy 1:12; Acts 17:2–9; 1 Peter 2:14–16
- 3 2 Corinthians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:5–6; 2 Corinthians 12:16–18
- 4 Galatians 1:10; Romans 8:27; Galatians 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:14; Psalm 17:3
- 5 Romans 1:9; 2 Corinthians 12:17; Acts 20:33; Galatians 1:20; 2 Peter 2:3
- 6 Galatians 1:10; John 5:44; John 5:41; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; Philemon 8–9
- 7 Isaiah 66:13; 2 Timothy 2:24–25; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; Isaiah 49:23; 2 Corinthians 10:1
- 8 1 John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 12:15; Philippians 2:17; Romans 1:11–12; Hebrews 13:17
- 9 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9; 2 Corinthians 11:9; Acts 18:3; 2 Corinthians 12:13–14; 1 Timothy 4:10
- 10 1 Peter 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Titus 2:7–8; Acts 20:18
- 11 1 Corinthians 4:14–15; Hebrews 13:22; 1 Timothy 5:21; 2 Timothy 4:1–2; 2 Thessalonians 3:12
- 12 Ephesians 4:1; 1 John 2:6; 1 John 1:6–7; 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14; 1 Thessalonians 4:12
- 13 Hebrews 4:12; Romans 10:17; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 Peter 1:25; 1 Peter 2:2
- 14 1 Thessalonians 3:4; Hebrews 10:33–34; Hebrews 5:7–8; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 8:1–2
- 15 Matthew 5:12; Luke 11:48–53; Acts 7:52; Acts 2:23; Luke 13:33–34
- 16 Acts 17:13; Acts 14:19; Acts 14:5; Malachi 4:1; Matthew 23:32
- 17 Colossians 2:5; 1 Corinthians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:6; Romans 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 3:10–11
- 18 Romans 15:22; Romans 1:13; Revelation 2:10; Zechariah 3:1–2; 2 Corinthians 11:12–14
- 19 Philippians 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Philippians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 1:14
- 20 2 Corinthians 1:14; 1 Corinthians 11:7
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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).
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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)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)