2 Corintios · Majority Standard Bible
2 Corintios 3 Majority Standard Bible
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1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
1 Ἀρχόμεθα πάλιν ἑαυτοὺς συνιστάνειν; εἰ μὴ χρῄζομεν ὥς τινες συστατικῶν ἐπιστολῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἢ ἐξ ὑμῶν συστατικῶν;
2 You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
2 ἡ ἐπιστολὴ ἡμῶν ὑμεῖς ἐστε, ἐγγεγραμμένη ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν, γινωσκομένη καὶ ἀναγινωσκομένη ὑπὸ πάντων ἀνθρώπων,
3 It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
3 φανερούμενοι ὅτι ἐστὲ ἐπιστολὴ Χριστοῦ διακονηθεῖσα ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν, ἐγγεγραμμένη οὐ μέλανι, ἀλλὰ Πνεύματι Θεοῦ ζῶντος, οὐκ ἐν πλαξὶ λιθίναις, ἀλλὰ ἐν πλαξὶ καρδίαις σαρκίναις.
4 Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
4 Πεποίθησιν δὲ τοιαύτην ἔχομεν διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν.
5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
5 οὐχ ὅτι ἱκανοί ἐσμεν ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν λογίσασθαί τι ὡς ἐξ ἑαυτῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ ἱκανότης ἡμῶν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ,
6 And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
6 ὃς καὶ ἱκάνωσεν ἡμᾶς διακόνους καινῆς διαθήκης, οὐ γράμματος, ἀλλὰ πνεύματος· τὸ γὰρ γράμμα ἀποκτέννει, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα ζωοποιεῖ.
7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
7 Εἰ δὲ ἡ διακονία τοῦ θανάτου ἐν γράμμασιν ἐντετυπωμένη ἐν λίθοις ἐγενήθη ἐν δόξῃ, ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι ἀτενίσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον Μωϋσέως διὰ τὴν δόξαν τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ τὴν καταργουμένην,
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
8 πῶς οὐχὶ μᾶλλον ἡ διακονία τοῦ πνεύματος ἔσται ἐν δόξῃ;
9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
9 εἰ γὰρ ἡ διακονία τῆς κατακρίσεως δόξα, πολλῷ μᾶλλον περισσεύει ἡ διακονία τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἐν δόξῃ.
10 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
10 καὶ γὰρ οὐδὲ δεδόξασται τὸ δεδοξασμένον ἐν τούτῳ τῷ μέρει ἕνεκεν τῆς ὑπερβαλλούσης δόξης.
11 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
11 εἰ γὰρ τὸ καταργούμενον διὰ δόξης, πολλῷ μᾶλλον τὸ μένον ἐν δόξῃ.
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
12 Ἔχοντες οὖν τοιαύτην ἐλπίδα πολλῇ παρρησίᾳ χρώμεθα,
13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
13 καὶ οὐ καθάπερ Μωϋσῆς ἐτίθει κάλυμμα ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον ἑαυτοῦ πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἀτενίσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ εἰς τὸ τέλος τοῦ καταργουμένου.
14 But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
14 ἀλλ᾽ ἐπωρώθη τὰ νοήματα αὐτῶν. ἄχρι γὰρ τῆς σήμερον τὸ αὐτὸ κάλυμμα ἐπὶ τῇ ἀναγνώσει τῆς παλαιᾶς διαθήκης μένει, μὴ ἀνακαλυπτόμενον ὅτι ἐν Χριστῷ καταργεῖται,
15 And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
15 ἀλλ᾽ ἕως σήμερον, ἡνίκα ἀναγινώσκεται Μωϋσῆς, κάλυμμα ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῶν κεῖται·
16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
16 ἡνίκα δ᾽ ἂν ἐπιστρέψῃ πρὸς Κύριον, περιαιρεῖται τὸ κάλυμμα.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
17 ὁ δὲ Κύριος τὸ Πνεῦμά ἐστιν· οὗ δὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα Κυρίου, ἐκεῖ ἐλευθερία.
18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
18 ἡμεῖς δὲ πάντες ἀνακεκαλυμμένῳ προσώπῳ τὴν δόξαν Κυρίου κατοπτριζόμενοι τὴν αὐτὴν εἰκόνα μεταμορφούμεθα ἀπὸ δόξης εἰς δόξαν, καθάπερ ἀπὸ Κυρίου Πνεύματος.
Referencias cruzadas (18)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corintios 10:12; 2 Corintios 12:11; 2 Corintios 5:12; Hechos 18:27; 1 Corintios 16:3
- 2 1 Corintios 9:1–2; 1 Tesalonicenses 1:8; Romanos 1:8; Filipenses 1:7; 2 Corintios 7:3
- 3 Ezequiel 11:19; Jeremías 31:33; Hebreos 8:10; Hebreos 10:16; Salmo 40:8
- 4 Filipenses 1:6; Efesios 3:12; 1 Tesalonicenses 1:8; Éxodo 18:19; 2 Corintios 2:14
- 5 2 Corintios 12:9; Filipenses 4:13; 1 Corintios 15:10; Filipenses 2:13; Juan 15:5
- 6 Juan 6:63; Romanos 7:6; Romanos 8:2; Jeremías 31:31; Hebreos 8:6–10
- 7 2 Corintios 3:9–11; Romanos 10:4; Éxodo 31:18; 1 Corintios 13:10; 2 Corintios 3:3
- 8 1 Corintios 3:16; Efesios 2:18; 1 Pedro 1:2; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:13; Joel 2:28–29
- 9 Hebreos 12:18–21; Romanos 3:21–22; 2 Corintios 5:21; 2 Corintios 3:6–7; 1 Corintios 15:41
- 10 2 Pedro 1:17; Hageo 2:7–9; Apocalipsis 22:5; Job 25:5; Hechos 26:13
- 11 Romanos 5:20–21; Hebreos 8:13; Hebreos 7:21–25; 2 Corintios 4:1; 2 Corintios 3:6–7
- 12 2 Corintios 7:4; Efesios 6:19–20; Filipenses 1:20; Hechos 4:13; Juan 16:29
- 13 Éxodo 34:33–35; Efesios 2:14–15; Colosenses 2:17; Hebreos 10:1–9; 2 Corintios 3:7
- 14 2 Corintios 4:3–4; Hechos 26:18; Romanos 11:25; Efesios 1:17–20; Romanos 11:7–10
- 15 Hechos 13:27–29
- 16 Éxodo 34:34; Isaías 25:7; Isaías 29:18; Juan 6:45–46; Romanos 11:23
- 17 Romanos 8:2; Juan 8:32; Gálatas 5:13; Gálatas 4:6; Gálatas 5:1
- 18 2 Corintios 4:6; Efesios 4:22–24; Romanos 12:2; 2 Corintios 4:4; 1 Corintios 13:12
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He anticipates and puts himself an objection which others would have urged against him, Thou vauntest thyself;' and this though he had before employed so strong a corrective in the expressions, "Who is sufficient for these things?" and, "of sincerity...speak we." (2 Cor. ii. 16, 17.) Howbeit he is not satisfied with these. For such is his character.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
… hold on the flesh, he says in the same Epistle, "That ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, inscribed not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart." If, therefore, in the present time, fleshly hearts are made partakers of the Spirit, what …
… before, when I censured Thy holy ones for so thinking, whereas in truth they thought not so; and with delight I heard Ambrose, in his sermons to the people, oftentimes most diligently recommend this text as a rule,--"The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life;" whilst, drawing aside the mystic veil, he spiritually laid open that which, accepted according to …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… their mind, and in their heart I will write them," and, "they shall be all taught of God." And Paul too, pointing out the same superiority, said, that they had received a law "not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." But since in process of time they made shipwreck, some with regard to doctrines, others …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For until this day...when Moses is read, a vail lieth upon their heart.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)