1 Así pues, como Dios en su misericordia nos ha proporcionado esta nueva manera de relacionarnos con él, no nos rendimos. 2 Pero sí hemos renunciado a los actos secretos y vergonzosos. No actuamos con engaño ni distorsionamos la Palabra de Dios. Nosotros demostramos lo que somos al revelar la verdad ante Dios, a fin de que todos puedan decidirse a conciencia. 3 Aún si la nueva noticia que compartimos está velada, lo está para los que mueren. 4 El dios de este mundo ha cegado las mentes de los que no creen en Dios. Ellos no pueden ver la luz de la buena noticia de la gloria de Cristo, quien es la imagen de Dios. 5 No nos anunciamos a nosotros mismos, sino a Cristo Jesús como Señor. De hecho, somos siervos de ustedes por causa de Jesús. 6 Porque el Dios que dijo: “Que brille la luz en medio de la oscuridad”, brilló en nuestros corazones para iluminar el conocimiento de la gloria de Dios en el rostro de Jesucristo. 7 Pero tenemos este tesoro en vasijas de barro, para demostrar que este poder supremo proviene de Dios y no de nosotros. 8 Nos atacan por todos lados, pero no estamos derrotados. Estamos confundidos en cuanto a qué hacer, pero nunca desesperados. 9 Estamos perseguidos, pero nunca abandonados por Dios. ¡Estamos derribados, pero no destruidos! 10 En nuestros cuerpos siempre participamos de la muerte de Jesús, para así también poder demostrar la vida de Jesús en nuestros cuerpos. 11 Aunque vivimos, estamos siempre bajo amenaza de muerte por causa de Jesús, a fin de que la vida de Jesús pueda revelarse en nuestros cuerpos mortales. 12 En consecuencia, enfrentamos la muerte para que ustedes tengan vida. 13 Como tenemos el mismo espíritu de confianza en Dios al que se refiere la Escritura cuando dice: “Creí en Dios, por tanto hablé”, nosotros también creemos en Dios y hablamos de él. 14 Sabemos que Dios, quien resucitó a Jesús, también nos resucitará con él, y nos llevará a su presencia con ustedes. 15 ¡Todo es por ustedes! Cuantos más alcance la gracia de Dios, mayor será nuestro agradecimiento a él, a su gloria. 16 Por eso no nos rendimos. Aunque nuestros cuerpos físicos están cayéndose a pedazos, nuestro interior se renueva cada día. 17 Estas tribulaciones triviales que tenemos, apenas duran un poco de tiempo, pero producen para nosotros gloria eterna. 18 No nos interesa lo visible, porque aspiramos a lo invisible. Lo que vemos es temporal, pero lo que no vemos es eterno.
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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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What the Fathers said
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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)