1 We know that when this earthly “tent” we live in is taken down, we have a house prepared by God, not made by human hands. It is eternal and is in heaven. 2 We sigh with longing for this, wanting so badly to be clothed with this new heavenly home. 3 When we put on this clothing we won't be seen naked. 4 While we are in this “tent” we sigh, being weighed down by this life. It's not so much that we want to take off the clothing of this life but that we look forward to what we shall be clothed with, so that what is mortal may be overwhelmed by life. 5 It's God himself who prepared us for all this, and who provided the Spirit as a guarantee to us. 6 So we remain confident, knowing that while we are at home here in our physical bodies, we are away from the Lord. 7 (For we live by trusting in God, not by seeing him.) 8 As I say, we are confident, wanting to be away from the body so we can be at home with the Lord. 9 That's why our goal, whether home here in our bodies or not, is to make sure we please him. 10 For all of us must appear before Christ's seat of judgment. Each of us will receive what we deserve for what we have done in this life, whether it is good or bad. 11 Knowing how we are in awe of the Lord, we try to convince others. It's clear to God what we are, and I hope that it's clear to your minds too. 12 We are not trying to speak well of ourselves again, just trying to give you the opportunity to be proud of us, so you can answer those who are proud of outward show and not what they are inside. 13 If we are “crazy people,” it's for God. If we make good sense, it's for you. 14 Christ's love urges us on, because we're absolutely sure that he died for everyone, and so everyone died. 15 Christ died for everyone so that they shouldn't live any longer for themselves, but for him who died and rose again for them. 16 From now on we don't look at anyone from a human point of view. Even though we once viewed Christ this way, we don't do so any longer. 17 That's why anyone who is in Christ is a new being—what was old is gone, the new has come! 18 God did all this by changing us from enemies into friends through Christ. God gave us this same work of changing his enemies into his friends. 19 For God was in Christ, bringing the world back from hostility to friendship with him, not counting anyone's sins against them, and giving us this message to change his enemies into his friends. 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God is pleading through us: “Please, won't you come back and be God's friend?” 21 God made Jesus, who never personally sinned, experience the consequences of sin so that we could have a character that is good and right just as God is good and right.
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Referencias cruzadas (21)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 19:25–26; 1 Juan 3:2; 2 Pedro 1:13–14; 2 Corintios 4:7; Hebreos 9:24
- 2 Romanos 8:23; 1 Corintios 15:53–54; Romanos 7:24; 2 Corintios 5:3–4; Filipenses 1:23
- 3 Génesis 3:7–11; Apocalipsis 16:15; Apocalipsis 3:18; Éxodo 32:25
- 4 1 Corintios 15:53–54; 2 Corintios 5:2; Isaías 25:8; 2 Pedro 1:13
- 5 2 Corintios 1:22; Efesios 1:13–14; Romanos 8:23; Efesios 4:30; 1 Juan 3:24
- 6 Filipenses 3:20–21; 2 Corintios 5:1; Hebreos 13:14; Salmo 39:12; Hebreos 11:13
- 7 Hebreos 11:1–27; 2 Corintios 4:18; Romanos 8:24–25; 1 Pedro 1:8; Hebreos 10:38
- 8 Filipenses 1:20–24; 2 Corintios 5:6; Juan 14:3; 1 Juan 3:2; 2 Corintios 12:2–3
- 9 Colosenses 1:10; 2 Pedro 3:14; Romanos 14:18; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:11; 1 Timoteo 4:10
- 10 Mateo 16:27; Apocalipsis 22:12; Eclesiastés 12:14; Efesios 6:8; Salmo 62:12
- 11 Judas 23; Hebreos 10:31; 2 Timoteo 2:24–26; Apocalipsis 20:15; 2 Corintios 4:1–2
- 12 2 Corintios 3:1; 2 Corintios 1:14; Gálatas 6:12–14; 2 Corintios 11:12–16; 2 Corintios 10:18
- 13 2 Corintios 11:16–17; 2 Corintios 12:6; 2 Corintios 11:1; Romanos 12:3; 1 Corintios 4:10–13
- 14 Gálatas 2:20; Romanos 14:7–9; Mateo 10:37–38; 1 Pedro 1:8; Romanos 5:15
- 15 Romanos 14:7–9; 1 Pedro 4:2–4; 1 Pedro 1:14–15; Colosenses 3:1; Colosenses 3:17
- 16 Colosenses 3:11; Filipenses 3:7–8; Juan 6:63; Santiago 2:1–4; Santiago 3:17
- 17 Ezequiel 36:26; Efesios 4:22–24; Isaías 43:18–19; Juan 3:3; Salmo 51:10
- 18 Colosenses 1:20–21; Romanos 5:10–11; 2 Corintios 5:19–20; Efesios 2:16–17; 1 Juan 4:10
- 19 Isaías 43:25; Isaías 44:22; 1 Juan 4:10; 1 Juan 2:1–2; 1 Timoteo 3:16
- 20 Efesios 6:20; Lucas 14:23; Malaquías 2:7; Ezequiel 18:31–32; Lucas 10:16
- 21 1 Pedro 2:22–24; 1 Pedro 3:18; Romanos 5:19; Gálatas 3:13; 1 Corintios 1:30
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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).
Again he arouses their zeal because many trials drew on. For it was likely that they, in consequence of his absence, were weaker in respect to this [need]. What then saith he? One ought not to wonder that we suffer affliction; nor to be confounded, for we even reap many gains thereby.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
If then we entreat the Lord to forgive us, we ought also ourselves to forgive; for we are before the eyes of our Lord and God, and "we must all appear at the judgment-seat of Christ, and must every one give an account of himself." Let us then serve Him in fear, and with all reverence, even as He Himself …
… adorned with works of righteousness, so that the Spirit of God may rest upon us; for this is the wedding garment, of which also the apostle speaks, "Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up by immortality." But those who have indeed been called to God's supper, yet have not received the …
Those pages contain not the expression of this piety,--the tears of confession, Thy sacrifice, a troubled spirit, "a broken and a contrite heart," the salvation of the people, the espoused city, the earnest of the Holy Ghost, the cup of our redemption.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… merely, "If he hath ought against thee." For though it be justly, not even in that case oughtest thou to protract the enmity; since Christ also was justly angered with us, yet nevertheless He gave Himself for us to be slain, "not imputing those trespasses." For this cause Paul also, when urging us in another way to reconciliation, said, "Let …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)