2 Corinthians · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
2 Corinthians 11 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Espero que puedan soportarme unas cuantas necedades más. ¡Bueno, de hecho, ya me soportan a mí mismo!
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Sufro de una agonía por el celo divino que siento por ustedes, pues les prometí un solo esposo—Cristo—a fin de presentarlos a ustedes como una mujer virgen y pura para él.
2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3 Me preocupa que, de algún modo, así como la serpiente engañó a Eva con su astucia, ustedes puedan ser descarriados en su forma de pensar sobre su compromiso sincero y puro con Cristo.
3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 Si alguno llega a hablarles sobre un Jesús distinto al que nosotros hemos compartido con ustedes, fácilmente ustedes concuerdan con ellos, aceptando un espíritu diferente al que han recibido, y una buena noticia distinta a la que creyeron.
4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
5 No me considero inferior a estos “súper apóstoles”.
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
6 Aunque no sea muy talentoso para dar discursos, sé de lo que hablo. Les hemos explicado esto claramente y de todas las maneras posibles.
6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7 ¿Fue un error que me humillara para exaltarlos a ustedes, siendo que compartí la buena noticia con ustedes sin beneficio económico alguno?
7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8 Despojé a otras iglesias, recibiendo pago de ellas para poder trabajar en favor de ustedes.
8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9 Cuando estuve allá con ustedes y necesité algo, no fui carga para nadie, porque los creyentes que venían de Macedonia se hicieron cargo de mis necesidades. Estuve decidido a no ser carga para ustedes y nunca lo seré.
9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10 Esto es tan cierto como la verdad de que Cristo está en mí: ¡No hay nadie en toda Acaya que me impida jactarme de esto!
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 ¿Y por qué? ¿Acaso es porque no los amo? ¡Dios mismo sabe que sí los amo!
11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12 Y seguiré haciendo lo que siempre he hecho, para eliminar cualquier oportunidad que otros puedan tener de jactarse de que su obra es igual a la nuestra.
12 But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
13 Estas personas son falsos apóstoles, obreros deshonestos, que fingen ser apóstoles de Cristo.
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
14 No se sorprendan de esto porque incluso Satanás mismo finge ser un ángel de luz.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15 Así que no se extrañen de que los que le sirven finjan ser agentes del bien. Pero su final será conforme a sus obras.
15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16 Permítanme decirlo nuevamente: por favor, no crean que estoy siendo necio. No obstante, si así lo creen, acéptenme como un necio, y permítanme jactarme un poco.
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17 Lo que estoy diciendo no es como lo diría el Señor, con todo este orgullo.
17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Pero como muchos andan por ahí jactándose como lo hace el mundo, entonces permítanme hacerlo también.
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19 (Ustedes son felices de soportar necios, pues son muy sabios)
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
20 Soportan a personas que los esclavizan, que les roban, que los explotan, que los humillan con su arrogancia, y que los abofetean.
20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
21 ¡Lamento tanto que nosotros fuimos muy débiles para soportar algo así! Pero sean cuales sean las razones por las cuales la gente se jacta, me atrevo a hacerlo también. (En esto hablo como necio una vez más).
21 To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22 ¿Es porque son hebreos? Yo también. ¿Es porque son israelitas? Yo también. ¿Es porque son descendientes de Abraham? Yo también lo soy.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
23 ¿Es porque son siervos de Cristo? (Esto podría sonar como una locura). Pero yo he hecho mucho más. He trabajado con más esfuerzo, me han llevado preso en muchas más ocasiones, me han azotado más veces de las que puedo contar, he enfrentado la muerte una y otra vez.
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
24 Cinco veces he recibido de los judíos cuarenta latigazos menos uno.
24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
25 Tres veces fui golpeado con palos, una vez fui apedreado, tres veces naufragué. Una vez duré veinticuatro horas a la deriva en el océano.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
26 Durante muchas ocasiones he afrontado los peligros de cruzar ríos, encontrarme con pandillas de atracadores, ataques de mis propios conciudadanos, así como de extranjeros. He enfrentado peligros en las ciudades, en los desiertos, y en el mar. He enfrentado el peligro de parte de personas que fingen ser cristianos.
26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
27 He enfrentado trabajo duro y luchas, muchas noches sin dormir, hambre y sed, a menudo he estado sin comida, con frío, y sin ropa para cubrirme del frío.
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28 Aparte de todo esto, cada día enfrento las preocupaciones de ocuparme de todas las iglesias.
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
29 ¿Quién es débil? ¿Acaso no me siento débil también? ¿Quién es conducido a pecar sin que yo arda de enojo?
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30 Si tengo que jactarme, me jactaré en lo débil que soy.
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
31 El Dios y Padre del Señor Jesús—sea él alabado por siempre—sabe que no miento.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
32 Mientras estaba en Damasco, el gobernador que estaba bajo autoridad del Rey Aretas mandó a custodiar la ciudad para capturarme.
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
33 Pero me ayudaron a descender en una canasta por el muro de la ciudad, y hui de él.
33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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The king whose governor guarded Damascus to seize Paul; Paul escaped in a basket through a window in the wall.
Cited in the guide: 2 Corinthians 11:32
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 11:4; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 5:13
- 2 Hosea 2:19–20; Ephesians 5:26–27; Isaiah 54:5; Colossians 1:28; Leviticus 21:13–15
- 3 Colossians 2:8; Galatians 1:6; Ephesians 4:14; 1 John 4:1; Colossians 2:4
- 4 Galatians 1:6–8; 1 Corinthians 3:11; 1 Timothy 2:5; Ephesians 4:4–5; 1 Corinthians 12:4–11
- 5 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 12:11–12; Galatians 2:6–9
- 6 1 Corinthians 1:17; Ephesians 3:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 2 Peter 3:15–16
- 7 2 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 4:10–12; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 9:6
- 8 2 Corinthians 11:9; Philippians 4:14–16; Philippians 4:18
- 9 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:6; Philippians 4:10–16; Hebrews 11:37
- 10 Romans 9:1; Acts 18:12; Romans 1:9; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 11:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 7:3; 2 Corinthians 6:11–12; 2 Corinthians 12:2–3; Revelation 2:23
- 12 1 Corinthians 9:12; 2 Corinthians 10:17; Galatians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 11:9; 2 Corinthians 11:18
- 13 Galatians 1:7; Revelation 2:2; 1 John 4:1; Philippians 3:2; Galatians 2:4
- 14 Galatians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Revelation 12:9; Matthew 4:1–10
- 15 Philippians 3:19; 2 Corinthians 3:9; Revelation 9:11; Jeremiah 23:14–15; Jude 4
- 16 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 12:6; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23
- 17 1 Corinthians 7:12; Philippians 3:3–6; 2 Corinthians 9:4; 1 Corinthians 7:25; 2 Corinthians 11:18–27
- 18 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Philippians 3:3–4; 1 Peter 1:24; 2 Corinthians 12:5–6
- 19 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Corinthians 8:1; Revelation 3:17
- 20 Galatians 2:4; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9; Isaiah 50:6
- 21 2 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Corinthians 10:1–2; 2 Corinthians 11:17; 2 Corinthians 11:22–27; 2 Corinthians 13:10
- 22 Philippians 3:5; Romans 11:1; Romans 9:4; Exodus 7:16; Exodus 9:13
- 23 2 Corinthians 6:4–5; Colossians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Corinthians 1:9–10; 2 Corinthians 11:24–25
- 24 Mark 13:9; Deuteronomy 25:2–3; Matthew 10:17
- 25 Acts 14:19; Hebrews 11:37; Acts 27:1–44; Acts 16:37; Acts 16:33
- 26 Acts 14:5; Acts 20:19; Acts 25:3; Acts 17:5; Acts 13:50
- 27 2 Corinthians 6:5; Philippians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 4:11–12
- 28 1 Corinthians 7:17; Romans 15:16; Acts 20:18–35; Romans 11:13; Acts 15:40–41
- 29 1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:22; Galatians 4:8–20; Nehemiah 13:23–25; Nehemiah 13:15–20
- 30 2 Corinthians 12:5–11; Proverbs 25:27; 1 Corinthians 2:3; Jeremiah 9:23–24; Proverbs 27:2
- 31 Romans 9:5; Ephesians 1:3; John 10:30; Romans 15:6; 1 Peter 1:3
- 32 Acts 9:24–25; 2 Corinthians 11:26
- 33 Acts 9:25; Joshua 2:18; 1 Samuel 19:12
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Being about to enter upon his own praises he uses much previous correction. And he does this not once or twice, although the necessity of the subject, and what he had often said, were sufficient excuse for him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
For the devil it was, transforming himself into an angel of light. And he much allured proud flesh, in that he had no fleshly body.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Wherefore Paul also said, "That wherein they glory, they may be found even as we." But if when we are in a strange country, and are going unto persons unknown to us, we must seek nothing more than our food for the day, much more when abiding at home.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The devil also transfigures himself into an angel of light; not that he may reascend to where he was, for having made his heart hard as an anvil, he has henceforth a will that cannot repent; but in order that he may envelope those who are living an Angelic life in a mist of blindness, and a pestilent condition …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… not in his own voice, doth he call on that other deep, for whom being jealous he feareth, lest that, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so their minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in our Bridegroom, Thine only Son. What a light of beauty will that be when "we shall see Him as He …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)