2 Corinthians · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
2 Corinthians 1 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Esta carta viene de parte de Pablo, apóstol de Jesucristo, conforme a la voluntad de Dios, y de parte de Timoteo, nuestro hermano. Es enviada a la iglesia de Dios en Corinto, así como a todo el pueblo de Dios que está por toda la región de Acaya.
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Reciban gracia y paz de Dios, nuestro Padre, y del Señor Jesucristo.
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 ¡Alaben a Dios, el padre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo! Él es el Padre misericordioso, y Dios de toda consolación.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 Él nos consuela en todas nuestras aflicciones, para que podamos consolar también a otros con el consuelo que recibimos de Dios.
4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 Cuanto más participamos de los sufrimientos de Cristo, tanto más abundante es el consuelo que recibimos de él.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
6 Si estamos angustiados, es para su consuelo y salvación. Si estamos siendo consolados, es para consuelo de ustedes, que los ayuda a soportar con paciencia los mismos sufrimientos que nosotros padecemos.
6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
7 Confiamos en gran manera en ustedes, sabiendo que así como participan de nuestros sufrimientos, también participan de nuestro consuelo.
7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
8 Hermanos y hermanas, no les ocultaremos los problemas que tuvimos en Asia. Estábamos tan agobiados que temíamos no tener las fuerzas para continuar, tanto así que dudábamos de que pudiéramos salir con vida.
8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
9 De hecho, era como una sentencia de muerte dentro de nosotros. Esto nos sirvió para dejar de depender de nosotros mismos y comenzar a confiar en Dios, quien levanta a los muertos.
9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
10 Él nos salvó de la muerte, y pronto lo hará otra vez. Tenemos plena confianza en que Dios seguirá salvándonos.
10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,
11 Ustedes nos ayudan con sus oraciones. De este modo, muchos agradecerán a Dios por la bendición que Dios nos dará en respuesta a las oraciones de muchos.
11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
12 Nos enorgullecemos en el hecho—y nuestra conciencia lo confirma—de que hemos actuado de manera apropiada con las personas, especialmente con ustedes. Hemos seguido los principios de Dios de santidad y sinceridad, no conforme a la sabiduría mundanal, sino por la gracia de Dios.
12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
13 Porque no escribimos ninguna cosa complicada que ustedes no puedan leer o comprender. Espero que ustedes al final entiendan,
13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end—
14 aunque ahora solo entiendan en parte, a fin de que cuando el Señor venga, ustedes estén orgullosos de nosotros, como nosotros de ustedes.
14 as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15 Como yo estaba tan seguro de su confianza en mí, hice planes para venir a visitarlos primero. Así ustedes se habrían beneficiado doblemente,
15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
16 pues iría desde donde están ustedes a Macedonia, y luego volvería desde Macedonia a donde ustedes nuevamente. Luego yo les habría pedido que me enviaran de camino a Judea.
16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
17 ¿Por qué cambié mi plan original? ¿Creen que tomo decisiones a la ligera? ¿Creen que cuando hago planes soy como cualquier persona del mundo que dice Sí y No al mismo tiempo?
17 When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
18 Así como Dios es digno de confianza, cuando nosotros les damos nuestra palabra, no es Sí y No a la vez.
18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
19 La verdad del Hijo de Dios, Jesucristo, fue anunciada a ustedes por medio de nosotros—Silvano, Timoteo y yo—y no fue Sí y No. ¡En Cristo la respuesta es definitivamente Sí!
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
20 No importa cuántas promesas Dios haya hecho, en Cristo la respuesta siempre es Sí. Por él, respondemos diciendo Sí a la gloria de Dios.
20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
21 Él nos ha dado a nosotros y también a ustedes la fuerza para permanecer firmes en Cristo. Dios nos ha ungido,
21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
22 ha puesto su sello de aprobación sobre nosotros, y nos ha dado la garantía del Espíritu en nuestros corazones.
22 who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 Pongo a Dios como mi testigo que la razón por la que decidí no ir a Corinto fue para no causarles dolor.
23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth.
24 El propósito de esto no es dictarles la manera en que deben relacionarse con Dios, sino porque queremos ayudarlos a tener una experiencia de gozo, porque es a través de la fe en Dios que permanecemos firmes.
24 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
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Corinth straddled the isthmus linking mainland Greece to the Peloponnese — a hub of commerce and immorality. Paul founded the church here; a Roman bema traditionally linked to his hearing before…
Cited in the guide: Acts 18:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Corinthians 1:1
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- 1 2 Timothy 1:1; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:1; Colossians 1:1–2
- 2 Romans 1:7; Ephesians 6:23; Philippians 1:2; Philemon 3; 1 Thessalonians 1:1
- 3 Ephesians 1:3; 1 Peter 1:3; Romans 15:5–6; Psalm 86:5; Micah 7:18
- 4 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Isaiah 51:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17; 2 Corinthians 7:6–7; Isaiah 40:1
- 5 Colossians 1:24; Philippians 3:10; Philippians 1:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
- 6 2 Timothy 2:10; 2 Corinthians 4:15–18; 2 Corinthians 1:4; Romans 8:28; Philippians 1:19
- 7 Romans 8:17–18; 2 Thessalonians 1:4–7; James 1:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:3–4; James 1:2–4
- 8 2 Corinthians 4:7–12; 1 Corinthians 4:8; 1 Corinthians 15:32; 1 Corinthians 16:9; Acts 19:23–35
- 9 2 Corinthians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 4:7; Hebrews 11:19; 2 Corinthians 12:7–10; Romans 4:17–25
- 10 1 Timothy 4:10; 2 Peter 2:9; Psalm 34:19; 1 Samuel 17:37; Romans 15:31
- 11 Philippians 1:19; 2 Corinthians 4:15; Acts 12:5; Colossians 4:3; Hebrews 13:18
- 12 1 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 2:17; James 3:13–18; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Hebrews 13:18
- 13 Philemon 6; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 13:6; 2 Corinthians 5:11
- 14 1 Thessalonians 2:19–20; Philippians 2:16; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; Philippians 4:1
- 15 Romans 15:29; Romans 1:11; 1 Corinthians 4:19; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 1 Corinthians 11:34
- 16 1 Corinthians 16:5–7; Acts 19:21–22; Acts 21:5
- 17 Matthew 5:37; James 5:12; 2 Corinthians 10:2–3; 2 Corinthians 1:18–20; John 8:15
- 18 1 Corinthians 1:9; Revelation 3:7; Revelation 3:14; John 7:28; 2 Corinthians 11:31
- 19 Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 1:17; 2 John 9; Revelation 1:8; Revelation 2:18
- 20 1 John 2:24–25; Galatians 3:22; Revelation 7:12; Hebrews 13:8; Ephesians 1:6
- 21 1 John 2:27; 1 John 2:20; 1 Peter 5:10; Romans 8:9; Isaiah 61:1
- 22 Ephesians 4:30; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:13–14; John 6:27; Romans 8:14–16
- 23 Galatians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 4:21; Romans 1:9; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 13:2
- 24 1 Peter 5:3; 1 Corinthians 15:1; 2 Timothy 2:24–26; Romans 5:2; Philippians 1:25–26
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It is meet to enquire, first, why to the former Epistle he adds a second: and what can be his reason for thus beginning with the mercies and consolation of God. Why then does he add a second Epistle?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
For it is no small fruit, O Lord my God, that by many thanks should be given to Thee on our behalf, and that by many Thou shouldest be entreated for us.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Wherefore Paul also said, "I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that we were pressed out of measure beyond strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life;" and after this again, "Who delivered us from so great deaths." Signifying therefore hereby, that they ought to be confident, though the waves rise high, and that He orders all things for good, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Put off, by confession, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit, that ye may put on the new man, which is renewed according to knowledge of Him that created him. Get you the earnest of the Holy Spirit through faith, that ye may be able to be received into the everlasting habitations.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
How then is it possible to conceive that the judgment is accomplished without the Holy Spirit, wherein the word points out that He is Himself the prize of the righteous, when instead of the earnest is given that which is perfect, and the first condemnation of sinners, when they are deprived of that which they seem to have?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)