2 Corintios · Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
2 Corintios 12 Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
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1 I suppose I have to boast, even though it doesn't really help. Let me go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
1 CIERTO no me es conveniente gloriarme; mas vendré á las visiones y á las revelaciones del Señor.
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was taken up to the third heaven (whether physically in the body, or out of it, I don't know, but God knows).
2 Conozco á un hombre en Cristo, que hace catorce años (si en el cuerpo, no lo sé; si fuera del cuerpo, no lo sé: Dios [lo] sabe) fué arrebatado hasta el tercer cielo.
3 I know that this man (whether taken up physically in the body, or apart from it, I don't know, but God knows),
3 Y conozco tal hombre, (si en el cuerpo, ó fuera del cuerpo, no lo sé: Dios [lo] sabe,)
4 how he was taken up into Paradise, and heard things too wonderful to be spoken, in words so sacred that no human being is allowed to say.
4 Que fué arrebatado al paraíso, donde oyó palabras secretas que el hombre no puede decir.
5 Something like that I'll boast about, but I won't boast about myself, except for my weaknesses.
5 De este tal me gloriaré, mas de mí mismo nada me gloriaré, sino en mis flaquezas.
6 I wouldn't be foolish if I wanted to boast, because I'd be telling the truth. But I won't boast, so that nobody will think more of me than what they see me doing or hear me saying.
6 Por lo cual si quisiere gloriarme, no seré insensato: porque diré verdad: empero [lo] dejo, porque nadie piense de mí más de lo que en mí ve, ú oye de mí.
7 Also, because these revelations were so amazingly great, and so that I wouldn't become proud, I was given a “thorn in my flesh”—a messenger from Satan to hurt me so that I wouldn't become proud.
7 Y porque la grandeza de las revelaciones no me levante descomedidamente, me es dado un aguijón en mi carne, un mensajero de Satanás que me abofetee, para que no me enaltezca sobremanera.
8 I pleaded with the Lord three times to get rid of this problem.
8 Por lo cual tres veces he rogado al Señor, que se quite de mí.
9 But he told me, “My grace is all you will need, for my power is effective in weakness.” That's why I happily boast about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me.
9 Y me ha dicho: Bástate mi gracia; porque mi potencia en la flaqueza se perfecciona. Por tanto, de buena gana me gloriaré más bien en mis flaquezas, porque habite en mí la potencia de Cristo.
10 So I appreciate weaknesses, insults, troubles, persecutions, and difficulties that I suffer for Christ's sake. For when I'm weak, then I'm strong!
10 Por lo cual me gozo en las flaquezas, en afrentas, en necesidades, en persecuciones, en angustias por Cristo; porque cuando soy flaco, entonces soy poderoso.
11 I'm talking like a fool, but you made me do it! You should really have been speaking well of me, for in no way am I inferior to the super-apostles, even though I don't count for anything.
11 Heme hecho un necio en gloriarme: vosotros me constreñisteis; pues yo había de ser alabado de vosotros: porque en nada he sido menos que los sumos apóstoles, aunque soy nada.
12 Yet the marks of an apostle were patiently demonstrated among you—signs, wonders, and powerful miracles.
12 Con todo esto, las señales de apóstol han sido hechas entre vosotros en toda paciencia, en señales, y en prodigios, y en maravillas.
13 In what way were you inferior to the other churches except I wasn't any burden to you? Please forgive me for doing you wrong!
13 Porque ¿qué hay en que habéis sido menos que las otras iglesias, sino en que yo mismo no os he sido carga? Perdonadme esta injuria.
14 Now I'm preparing to visit you for the third time, and I won't be a burden to you. I don't want what you have, I want you yourselves! After all, children shouldn't save up for their parents, but parents should for their children.
14 He aquí estoy aparejado para ir á vosotros la tercera vez, y no os seré gravoso; porque no busco vuestras cosas, sino á vosotros: porque no han de atesorar los hijos para los padres, sino los padres para los hijos.
15 I will happily spend myself, and be spent, for you. If I love you so much more, will you love me even less?
15 Empero yo de muy buena gana despenderé y seré despendido por vuestras almas, aunque amándoos más, sea amado menos.
16 Well, even if that's so, I wasn't a burden to you. Maybe I was being devious, and tricked you with my cunning ways!
16 Mas sea así, yo no os he agravado: sino que, como soy astuto, os he tomado por engaño.
17 But did I take advantage of you by anyone I've sent to you?
17 ¿Acaso os he engañado por alguno de los que he enviado á vosotros?
18 I urged Titus to go and see you, and I sent another brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? No, we both have the same spirit and use the same methods.
18 Rogué á Tito, y envié con él al hermano. ¿Os engañó quizá Tito? ¿no hemos procedido con el mismo espíritu [y] por las mismas pisadas?
19 Maybe you're thinking that all along we've been just trying to defend ourselves. No, we speak for Christ before God. Everything we do, friends, is for your benefit.
19 ¿Pensáis aún que nos excusamos con vosotros? Delante de Dios en Cristo hablamos: mas todo, muy amados, por vuestra edificación.
20 I do worry when I visit that somehow I won't find you as I would want to, and that you won't find me as you would want to! I'm afraid that there will be arguments, jealousy, anger, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
20 Porque temo que cuando llegare, no os halle tales como quiero, y yo sea hallado de vosotros cual no queréis; que [haya] entre vosotros contiendas, envidias, iras, disensiones, detracciones, murmuraciones, elaciones, bandos:
21 I'm afraid that when I visit, my God will humble me in your presence, and that I will be weeping over many of those who have sinned previously, and who still have not repented of impurity, sexual immorality, and indecent acts that they committed.
21 Que cuando volviere, me humille Dios entre vosotros, y haya de llorar por muchos de los que antes habrán pecado, y no se han arrepentido de la inmundicia y fornicación y deshonestidad que han cometido.
Referencias cruzadas (20)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Gálatas 1:12; 2 Corintios 12:7; 1 Juan 5:20; Hechos 22:17–21; 1 Corintios 10:23
- 2 Hechos 22:17; Ezequiel 8:1–3; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:17; Apocalipsis 4:2; 2 Corintios 11:11
- 4 Lucas 23:43; Apocalipsis 2:7; Ezequiel 31:9
- 5 2 Corintios 11:30; 1 Corintios 2:3; 2 Corintios 12:9–10
- 6 2 Corintios 11:16; 2 Corintios 10:8–10; 2 Corintios 11:31; 2 Corintios 12:11; 2 Corintios 12:7
- 7 Números 33:55; Jueces 2:3; 2 Crónicas 32:25–26; Gálatas 4:13; 1 Corintios 5:5
- 8 Hebreos 5:7; Mateo 26:39–44; 1 Samuel 15:11; 2 Samuel 12:16–18; Salmo 77:2–11
- 9 Filipenses 4:13; 2 Corintios 12:10; Isaías 40:29–31; Efesios 3:16; Josué 1:9
- 10 2 Corintios 12:9; Efesios 6:10; Romanos 5:3; 2 Corintios 13:4; Santiago 1:2
- 11 2 Corintios 11:5; 2 Corintios 11:1; 1 Corintios 15:8–10; Efesios 3:8; 1 Corintios 3:22
- 12 Romanos 15:18–19; 2 Corintios 4:2; 1 Corintios 14:18; Juan 4:48; 1 Corintios 9:1–2
- 13 1 Corintios 9:6; 1 Corintios 9:12; 2 Corintios 11:7–9; 2 Corintios 12:14; 1 Corintios 9:15–18
- 14 Proverbios 19:14; Génesis 24:35–36; 1 Corintios 10:33; Proverbios 13:22; Génesis 31:14–15
- 15 1 Tesalonicenses 2:8; 2 Corintios 1:6; Filipenses 2:17; Colosenses 1:24; 2 Timoteo 2:10
- 16 2 Corintios 1:12; 2 Corintios 7:2; 2 Corintios 10:2–3; 2 Corintios 12:13; 2 Corintios 11:9–10
- 17 1 Corintios 16:10; 2 Reyes 5:16; 1 Corintios 4:17; 2 Corintios 12:18; 2 Corintios 9:5
- 18 2 Corintios 8:6; Romanos 4:12; 2 Corintios 7:6; Filipenses 2:19–22; 2 Corintios 7:2
- 19 Romanos 9:1; 1 Corintios 14:26; 2 Corintios 10:8; 1 Corintios 10:14; Filipenses 4:1
- 20 1 Pedro 2:1; Gálatas 5:19–21; Romanos 1:29; 1 Corintios 1:11; Judas 16
- 21 2 Corintios 13:2; Colosenses 3:5; 1 Corintios 5:9–11; 1 Pedro 4:2–3; Apocalipsis 21:8
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
What is this? Doth he who has spoken such great things say, [It is not expedient] "doubtless to glory?" as if he had said nothing?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
For that there are spiritual creatures in the heavens, all the Scriptures loudly proclaim; and Paul expressly testifies that there are spiritual things when he declares that he was caught up into the third heaven, and again, that he was carried away to paradise, and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
… ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God; and expressing not only his sorrow, but bitter lamentation over some who had formally sinned and had not repented of their uncleanness and fornications. If these emotions and affections, arising as they do from the love of what is …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… when in much danger and affliction, often besought God that the temptations might depart from him: nevertheless God regarded not his request, but his profit, and to signify this He said, "My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." So that before He hath told him the reason, He benefits him against his will, …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For Peter was there, who carrieth the keys of heaven: and nothing wonderful, for Paul was there, who was caught up to the third heaven, and into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful far a man to utter.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)