1 Por esto, como nosotros tenemos este ministerio según la misericordia que nos fue mostrada, no desmayamos. 2 Nos apartamos de lo oculto y vergonzoso. No andamos con astucia ni adulteramos la Palabra de Dios. Manifestamos la verdad y nos encomendamos a toda conciencia humana para la manifestación de la verdad delante de Dios. 3 Si nuestras Buenas Noticias están aún encubiertas, entre los que se pierden están encubiertas. 4 El dios de este mundo cegó las mentes de los incrédulos para que no vean la iluminación de las Buenas Noticias de la gloria de Cristo, Quien es [la ]Imagen de Dios. 5 Porque no nos predicamos a nosotros mismos, sino a Jesucristo como Señor, y a nosotros mismos como esclavos de ustedes por causa de Jesús. 6 Porque Dios, Quien ordenó que la Luz resplandezca de la oscuridad, resplandeció en nuestros corazones para iluminación del conocimiento de la gloria de Dios en el rostro de Cristo. 7 Pero tenemos este tesoro en vasos de barro, para que la extraordinaria cualidad del poder sea de Dios y no de nosotros, 8 quienes estamos oprimidos en todo, pero no angustiados; inciertos, pero no desesperados; 9 perseguidos, pero no abandonados; derribados, pero no destruidos. 10 Siempre llevamos por todas partes la muerte de Jesús en el cuerpo, para que también la vida de Jesús se manifieste en nuestro cuerpo. 11 Porque nosotros, los que vivimos, somos entregados constantemente a la muerte por causa de Jesús, para que también la vida de Jesús se manifieste en nuestro cuerpo mortal. 12 De modo que la muerte actúa en nosotros, pero la vida en ustedes. 13 Pero tenemos el mismo espíritu de fe, según lo que está escrito: Creí, por tanto hablé. También nosotros creemos, por tanto hablamos. 14 Sabemos que el que resucitó al Señor Jesús, también nos resucitará y nos presentará con ustedes por medio de Jesús. 15 Porque todas las cosas son por amor a ustedes, para que al abundar la gracia por medio de muchos, la acción de gracias sea más que suficiente para la gloria de Dios. 16 Por tanto, no desfallecemos. Más bien, aunque nuestro aspecto exterior es desgastado, sin embargo, el interior es renovado de día en día. 17 Porque esta leve aflicción momentánea se nos reproduce en un peso eterno de resplandor de extraordinaria calidad, 18 al nosotros no mirar las cosas que se ven, sino las que no se ven. Porque las que se ven son temporales, pero las que no se ven son eternas.
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Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Thessalonians 3:13; Galatians 6:9; Ephesians 3:13; Revelation 2:3; Philippians 4:13
- 2 2 Corinthians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:3–5; 2 Corinthians 5:11; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; 1 Corinthians 4:5
- 3 1 Corinthians 1:18; 2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11; 2 Corinthians 2:15–16; Matthew 11:25
- 4 John 12:40; 2 Corinthians 3:14; Acts 26:18; Isaiah 6:10; 1 John 5:19
- 5 1 Thessalonians 2:5–6; 2 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 1:23; Galatians 5:13; 2 Corinthians 5:14–15
- 6 Isaiah 60:2; Genesis 1:3; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Peter 1:19; Ephesians 5:8
- 7 2 Corinthians 3:5–6; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Ephesians 2:8–9; 1 Corinthians 1:28; Colossians 2:3
- 8 James 1:2–4; Romans 8:35–37; 1 Peter 4:12–14; 2 Corinthians 12:10; Psalm 56:2–3
- 9 Isaiah 43:2; Micah 7:8; Psalm 37:24–25; Proverbs 24:16; Psalm 42:11
- 10 Romans 6:5; 2 Timothy 2:11; 1 Peter 4:13; Romans 6:8; Philippians 3:10–11
- 11 1 Corinthians 15:49; 1 Corinthians 15:53–54; Psalm 44:22; Romans 8:36; 1 Corinthians 15:31
- 12 2 Corinthians 13:9; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 John 3:16; Acts 20:24; Philippians 2:17
- 13 Psalm 116:10; Hebrews 11:1–40; 2 Corinthians 3:12; Proverbs 21:28; 1 Corinthians 12:9
- 14 Romans 8:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; 1 Corinthians 6:14; John 11:25–26; Jude 24
- 15 Romans 8:28; Ephesians 3:20–21; 2 Corinthians 9:11–12; Psalm 50:23; 2 Corinthians 1:11
- 16 Isaiah 40:31; Colossians 3:10; Isaiah 40:29; Romans 12:2; Psalm 73:26
- 17 Romans 8:18; 1 Peter 5:10; Romans 5:3–5; James 1:12; Hebrews 12:10–11
- 18 2 Corinthians 5:7; Romans 8:24–25; Hebrews 11:1; 1 John 2:16–17; 1 John 2:25
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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).
Seeing he had uttered great things and had set himself and all the faithful before Moses, aware of the height and greatness of what he had said, observe how he moderates his tone again.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
As to their affirming that Paul said plainly in the Second [Epistle] to the Corinthians, "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not," and maintaining that there is indeed one god of this world, but another who is beyond all principality, and beginning, and power, we are not to blame if they, …
… contrary, it so thoroughly adopts it, that even while a man is alive, and body and soul are united, it calls each of them singly by the name "man," speaking of the soul as the "inward man," and of the body as the "outward man," as if there were two men, though both together are indeed but one.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Hear, for instance, how of those passions Paul is ashamed, even after his deliverance from them, saying, "For what fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed?" But virtue, even after his labor, he affirms to be light, calling the laboriousness of our affliction momentary and "light," and rejoicing in his sufferings, and glorying in his …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For it is Paul who saith, In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the Gospel should shine unto them." But Archelaus made a good retort, saying, "Read a little before: But if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that are perishing.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)