2 Corinthians · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
2 Corinthians 2 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Así que decidí no visitarlos otra vez para no causarles tristeza.
1 ESTO pues determiné para conmigo, no venir otra vez á vosotros con tristeza.
1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
2 Porque si yo los entristezco, ¿quién me alegra, sino aquel a quien yo entristecí?
2 Porque si yo os contristo, ¿quién será luego el que me alegrará, sino aquel á quien yo contristare?
2 For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
3 Les escribí esto para que al llegar no sea entristecido por los que debían alegrarme. Confío que mi gozo es el de todos ustedes.
3 Y esto mismo os escribí, porque cuando llegare no tenga tristeza sobre tristeza de los que me debiera gozar; confiando en vosotros todos que mi gozo es [el] de todos vosotros.
3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.
4 Les escribí con muchas lágrimas por la gran aflicción y angustia, no para entristecerlos, sino para que supieran cuán gran amor les tengo.
4 Porque por la mucha tribulación y angustia del corazón os escribí con muchas lágrimas; no para que fueseis contristados, mas para que supieseis cuánto más amor tengo para con vosotros.
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
5 Si causó tristeza a alguno, no fue solo a mí, sino hasta cierto punto, para no exagerar, a todos ustedes.
5 Que si alguno [me] contristó, no me contristó á mí, sino en parte, por no cargaros, á todos vosotros.
5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
6 Este castigo de la mayoría para él fue suficiente.
6 Bástale al tal esta reprensión [hecha] de muchos;
6 This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
7 Por tanto, al contrario, más bien les corresponde a ustedes perdonarlo y consolarlo, para que él no sea abrumado por la excesiva tristeza.
7 Así que, al contrario, vosotros más bien lo perdonéis y consoléis, porque no sea el tal consumido de demasiada tristeza.
7 so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
8 Así que les ruego confirmar [el] amor hacia él.
8 Por lo cual os ruego que confirméis el amor para con él.
8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
9 Por esto les escribí, a fin de ponerlos a prueba para saber si son obedientes en todas las cosas.
9 Porque también por este fin [os] escribí, para tener experiencia de vosotros si sois obedientes en todo.
9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
10 A quien perdonen algo, yo también. Porque lo que perdoné, si algo perdoné, [lo hice] por ustedes en presencia de Cristo
10 Y al que vosotros perdonareis, yo también: porque también yo lo que he perdonado, si algo he perdonado, por vosotros [lo he hecho] en persona de Cristo;
10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
11 para que Satanás no se aproveche, porque no ignoramos sus maquinaciones.
11 Porque no seamos engañados de Satanás: pues no ignoramos sus maquinaciones.
11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
12 Cuando fui a Troas para [predicar] las Buenas Noticias de Cristo, aunque el Señor me abrió una puerta,
12 Cuando vine á Troas para el evangelio de Cristo, aunque me fué abierta puerta en el Señor,
12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
13 no tuve reposo en mi espíritu por no hallar a mi hermano Tito. Así que me despedí de ellos y salí para Macedonia.
13 No tuve reposo en mi espíritu, por no haber hallado á Tito mi hermano: así, despidiéndome de ellos, partí para Macedonia.
13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
14 Pero gracias a Dios, Quien siempre nos lleva en un desfile triunfal en Cristo, y por medio de nosotros manifiesta la fragancia de su conocimiento en todo lugar.
14 Mas á Dios gracias, el cual hace que siempre triunfemos en Cristo Jesús, y manifiesta el olor de su conocimiento por nosotros en todo lugar.
14 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
15 Porque somos fragancia de Cristo para Dios entre los que son salvos y entre los que se pierden:
15 Porque para Dios somos buen olor de Cristo en los que se salvan, y en los que se pierden:
15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who perish:
16 a estos ciertamente, [somos] olor de muerte para muerte, y a aquéllos, olor de vida para vida. Y para estas cosas, ¿quién está capacitado?
16 A éstos ciertamente olor de muerte para muerte; y á aquéllos olor de vida para vida. Y para estas cosas ¿quién es suficiente?
16 to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
17 Porque no somos como muchos que negocian la Palabra de Dios. Hablamos con sinceridad en Cristo, como sus enviados delante de Dios.
17 Porque no somos como muchos, mercaderes falsos de la palabra de Dios: antes con sinceridad, como de Dios, delante de Dios, hablamos en Cristo.
17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
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Titus
A Greek coworker of Paul, not compelled to be circumcised, who carried Paul's letters to Corinth, and whom Paul left in Crete to set things in order.
Cited in the guide: 2 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 8:23; Galatians 2:3
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 12:20–21; 2 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Corinthians 4:21
- 2 2 Corinthians 7:8; 1 Corinthians 12:26; Romans 12:15; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 11:29
- 3 Galatians 5:10; 2 Corinthians 8:22; Philemon 21; 2 Thessalonians 3:4; 2 Corinthians 7:12
- 4 2 Corinthians 7:12; Proverbs 27:5–6; Leviticus 19:17–18; Luke 19:41–44; 2 Corinthians 11:2
- 5 1 Corinthians 5:12–13; Galatians 4:12; Galatians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 5:1–5; Proverbs 17:25
- 6 1 Corinthians 5:4–5; 1 Timothy 5:20; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 7:11
- 7 Ephesians 4:32; Galatians 6:1–2; Colossians 3:13; Isaiah 28:7; Proverbs 17:22
- 8 Jude 22–23; Galatians 6:10; Galatians 5:13; Galatians 6:1–2
- 9 2 Corinthians 10:6; Philemon 21; Philippians 2:22; 2 Corinthians 7:12–15; 2 Corinthians 8:24
- 10 John 20:23; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Matthew 18:18; 1 Corinthians 5:4
- 11 1 Peter 5:8; Ephesians 6:11–12; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Luke 22:31
- 12 Acts 16:8; Acts 14:27; Colossians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 16:9; Revelation 3:7–8
- 13 2 Corinthians 7:5–6; 2 Corinthians 12:18; Galatians 2:1; 2 Timothy 4:10; 2 Corinthians 8:6
- 14 Ephesians 5:2; Romans 8:37; 2 Corinthians 2:15–16; 2 Corinthians 9:15; Romans 6:17
- 15 Ephesians 5:2; 1 Corinthians 1:18; Ezekiel 20:41; Philippians 4:18; Genesis 8:21
- 16 2 Corinthians 3:5–6; John 9:39; 1 Peter 2:7–8; Luke 2:34; 1 Corinthians 15:10
- 17 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Peter 2:1–3; 2 Timothy 4:3–4; 1 Timothy 4:1–3
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These words seem on the one hand to be unworthy of Paul, if because of a brother's absence he threw away so great an opportunity of saving; and on the other, to hang apart from the context. What then?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
… strain also the Apostle Paul, inasmuch as he had a good conscience, said to the Corinthians: "For we are not as many, who corrupt the Word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ;" "We have injured no man, corrupted no man, circumvented no man."
To the one we are the savor of life unto life, to the other the savor of death unto death: and who is sufficient for these things?" The lesson of the holy Gospel before us affords us the opportunity of so speaking of that savor, that we on our part may give worthy utterance, and you diligent heed, to what …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Now if ye grieve at hearing these things, I thank you much, for "who is he that maketh me glad, but he which is made sorry by me?" Do not then ever cease to grieve and be vexed for them, for the sorrow that comes of such things will be to you a beginning of a change for the better.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Then on the nostrils; that receiving the sacred ointment ye may say, We are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)