Galatians · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Galatians 4 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Permítanme explicarles lo que estoy diciendo. Un heredero que es menor de edad no es distinto a un esclavo, aunque el heredero sea el propietario de todo.
1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
2 Pues un heredero está sujeto a los guardias y administradores hasta que llegue el tiempo establecido por su padre.
2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
3 Lo mismo sucede con nosotros. Cuando éramos niños, éramos esclavos sujetos a las reglas básicas de la ley.
3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
4 Pero en el momento apropiado Dios envió a su hijo, nacido de una mujer, nacido bajo el gobierno de la ley,
4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
5 para poder rescatar a los que fueron cautivos bajo el dominio de la ley, a fin de que pudiéramos recibir la heredad de hijos adoptivos.
5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children.
6 Para demostrar que ustedes son sus hijos, Dios envió al Espíritu de su Hijo a nuestros corazones, haciéndonos clamar: “Abba”, que quiere decir “Padre”.
6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
7 Puesto que ya no eres un esclavo, sino un hijo, y si eres su hijo, entonces Dios te ha convertido en su heredero.
7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Cuando ustedes no conocían a Dios, estaban esclavizados por los supuestos “dioses” de este mundo.
8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
9 Pero ahora han llegado a conocer a Dios, o mejor aún, han llegado a ser conocidos por Dios. ¿Cómo pueden volver, entonces, a esas reglas inútiles y sin valor? ¿Quieren ser esclavos de esas reglas nuevamente?
9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
10 Ustedes observan días especiales y meses, temporadas y años.
10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
11 Y me preocupa que todo lo que hice por ustedes haya sido tiempo perdido.
11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
12 Les ruego, mis amigos: sean como yo, porque yo me volví como ustedes. Ustedes nunca me trataron mal.
12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
13 Recuerden que compartí la buena noticia con ustedes porque estaba enfermo durante mi primera visita.
13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
14 Y aunque mi enfermedad fue muy incómoda para ustedes, no me rechazaron ni me despreciaron, sino que de hecho, me trataron como a un ángel de Dios, como a Jesucristo mismo.
14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 ¿Entonces qué ha pasado con su gratitud? ¡Déjenme decirles que en ese tiempo, si ustedes hubieran podido sacarse los ojos para dármelos a mí, de seguro lo habrían hecho!
15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
16 ¿Qué es lo que ha ocurrido, entonces? ¿Me he convertido en enemigo de ustedes por decir la verdad?
16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 Estas personas anhelan tener el apoyo de ustedes, pero no es con buenas intenciones. Por el contrario, quieren alejarlos de nosotros a fin de que ustedes se entusiasmen para apoyarlos.
17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
18 Por supuesto, es bueno hacer el bien. ¡Pero debería ser todo el tiempo, no solo cuando yo estoy aquí con ustedes!
18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
19 Mis queridos amigos, quiero trabajar a su lado hasta que el carácter de Cristo se haya duplicado en ustedes.
19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
20 Desearía poder acompañarlos ahora mismo y así podrían notar cómo cambio el tono de mi voz… Estoy muy preocupado por ustedes.
20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
21 Respóndanme esto, ustedes que quieren vivir bajo la ley: ¿No escuchan lo que la ley está diciendo?
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
22 Como dice la Escritura: Abraham tenía dos hijos, uno de la sierva y otro de la mujer libre.
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
23 Sin embargo, el hijo de la sierva nació por planes humanos, mientras el hijo de la mujer libre nació como resultado de la promesa.
23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
24 Esto nos muestra una analogía: estas dos mujeres representan dos pactos. Un pacto es del Monte Sinaí—Agar—y ella da a luz hijos esclavos.
24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
25 Agar simboliza al Monte Sinaí en Arabia, y corresponde a la Jerusalén actual, porque ella está en esclavitud con sus hijos.
25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
26 Pero la Jerusalén celestial es libre. Ella es nuestra madre.
26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 Como dice la Escritura: “¡Regocíjense las que no tienen hijos y las que nunca han parido! ¡Griten de alegría, las que nunca han estado en labores de parto, porque la mujer abandonada tiene más hijos que la mujer que tiene esposo!”
27 For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.”
28 Ahora, amigos míos, nosotros somos hijos de la promesa tal como Isaac.
28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 Sin embargo, así como el que nació por planes humanos persiguió al que nació por el Espíritu, del mismo modo ocurre hoy.
29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
30 Pero ¿qué dice la Escritura? “Despidan a la sierva y a su hijo, porque el hijo de la sierva no será heredero junto al hijo de la mujer libre”.
30 However, what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”
31 Por lo tanto, mis amigos, no somos hijos de la sierva, sino de la mujer libre.
31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Galatians 4:23; Galatians 4:29; Genesis 24:2–3
- 3 Colossians 2:20; Colossians 2:8; Galatians 4:9; Galatians 2:4; Galatians 4:31–5:1
- 4 Isaiah 7:14; Mark 1:15; Romans 1:3; John 1:14; Matthew 1:23
- 5 Hebrews 9:15; Ephesians 1:5; 1 Peter 1:18–20; Ephesians 1:7; Galatians 3:13
- 6 Romans 8:15–17; Romans 5:5; Romans 8:9; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Ephesians 2:18
- 7 Galatians 3:29–4:2; Romans 8:16–17; Galatians 3:26; 1 Corinthians 3:21–23; Galatians 4:5–6
- 8 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; Ephesians 2:11–12; 1 Corinthians 10:19–20
- 9 1 Corinthians 8:3; Galatians 3:3; Romans 8:3; 1 John 5:20; 2 Peter 2:20
- 10 Colossians 2:16–17; Romans 14:5; Leviticus 23:1–44; Numbers 28:1–29; Leviticus 25:13
- 11 1 Thessalonians 3:5; Philippians 2:16; 2 John 8; Galatians 2:2; Galatians 4:20
- 12 2 Corinthians 2:5; 1 Kings 22:4; 1 Corinthians 9:20–23; Genesis 34:15; Galatians 6:14
- 13 1 Corinthians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 12:7–10; 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 10:10; Galatians 1:6
- 14 Matthew 10:40; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 13:2; 2 Samuel 19:27; 2 Corinthians 5:20
- 15 Romans 5:2; Colossians 4:13; 1 John 3:16–18; Romans 9:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:13
- 16 Amos 5:10; Proverbs 9:8; John 8:45; Galatians 5:7; Psalm 141:5
- 17 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Romans 16:18; 2 Peter 2:3; Matthew 23:15; 1 Corinthians 4:8
- 18 Philippians 2:12; Revelation 3:19; Philippians 1:27; Psalm 119:139; 1 Corinthians 15:58
- 19 Ephesians 4:13; Romans 13:14; Romans 8:29; Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 4:12
- 20 1 Thessalonians 2:17–18; 1 Corinthians 4:19–21; 1 Thessalonians 3:9
- 21 Galatians 3:10; Romans 3:19; Matthew 22:29–32; Galatians 3:23–24; Galatians 4:9
- 22 Genesis 16:15; Genesis 21:10; Genesis 21:1–2; Genesis 16:2–4
- 23 Hebrews 11:11; Romans 9:7–8; Genesis 21:1–2; Genesis 18:10–14; Galatians 4:28–29
- 24 Genesis 21:9–13; Hosea 11:10; 1 Corinthians 10:11; Hebrews 10:15–18; Hebrews 12:24
- 25 Matthew 23:37; Galatians 1:17; Psalm 68:17; Psalm 68:8; Deuteronomy 33:2
- 26 Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21:2; Philippians 3:20; Micah 4:1–2; Revelation 3:12
- 27 Isaiah 54:1–5; Psalm 113:9; Ruth 4:14–16; 1 Samuel 2:5; 1 Timothy 5:5
- 28 Galatians 4:23; Romans 9:8–9; Romans 4:13–18; Galatians 3:29; Acts 3:25
- 29 Genesis 21:9; Romans 8:13; Galatians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15; Galatians 4:23
- 30 Genesis 21:10–12; John 8:35; Romans 8:15–17; Galatians 3:22; Romans 4:3
- 31 Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:1; John 8:36; John 1:12–13; 1 John 3:1–2
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… in what sense [God] says, "That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved;" and in what sense He says that "more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her who possessed a husband." For in reference to these points, and others of a like nature, the apostle exclaims: …
For she had "been the wife of one man," had requited her parents, had guided her house piously, was "well-reported of for good works," had "brought up children," as often travailing in birth of them as she saw them swerving from Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For that He did come forth of the Virgin's flesh, He hath declared by speaking of "that which was conceived in her;" and Paul, by saying, "made of a woman;" whereby he stops the mouths of them that say, Christ came among us as through some conduit.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For God sent forth His Son, says Paul, not made of a man and a woman, but made of a woman only, that is of a virgin.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… (di' ou) ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son," and "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by (dia) the will of God;" and again, "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God." And "like as Christ was raised up from the dead by (dia) the glory of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)