1 Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2 Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not dawn upon them. 5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of the Lord Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. 13 And in keeping with what is written, “I believed, therefore I have spoken,” we who have the same spirit of faith also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us through Jesus and present us with you in His presence. 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow, to the glory of God. 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet the inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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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 Tesalonicenses 3:13; Gálatas 6:9; Efesios 3:13; Apocalipsis 2:3; Filipenses 4:13
- 2 2 Corintios 2:17; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:3–5; 2 Corintios 5:11; 2 Corintios 11:13–15; 1 Corintios 4:5
- 3 1 Corintios 1:18; 2 Corintios 3:14; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:9–11; 2 Corintios 2:15–16; Mateo 11:25
- 4 Juan 12:40; 2 Corintios 3:14; Hechos 26:18; Isaías 6:10; 1 Juan 5:19
- 5 1 Tesalonicenses 2:5–6; 2 Corintios 1:24; 1 Corintios 1:23; Gálatas 5:13; 2 Corintios 5:14–15
- 6 Isaías 60:2; Génesis 1:3; 1 Pedro 2:9; 2 Pedro 1:19; Efesios 5:8
- 7 2 Corintios 3:5–6; 2 Corintios 5:1; Efesios 2:8–9; 1 Corintios 1:28; Colosenses 2:3
- 8 Santiago 1:2–4; Romanos 8:35–37; 1 Pedro 4:12–14; 2 Corintios 12:10; Salmo 56:2–3
- 9 Isaías 43:2; Miqueas 7:8; Salmo 37:24–25; Proverbios 24:16; Salmo 42:11
- 10 Romanos 6:5; 2 Timoteo 2:11; 1 Pedro 4:13; Romanos 6:8; Filipenses 3:10–11
- 11 1 Corintios 15:49; 1 Corintios 15:53–54; Salmo 44:22; Romanos 8:36; 1 Corintios 15:31
- 12 2 Corintios 13:9; 1 Corintios 4:10; 1 Juan 3:16; Hechos 20:24; Filipenses 2:17
- 13 Salmo 116:10; Hebreos 11:1–40; 2 Corintios 3:12; Proverbios 21:28; 1 Corintios 12:9
- 14 Romanos 8:11; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:14; 1 Corintios 6:14; Juan 11:25–26; Judas 24
- 15 Romanos 8:28; Efesios 3:20–21; 2 Corintios 9:11–12; Salmo 50:23; 2 Corintios 1:11
- 16 Isaías 40:31; Colosenses 3:10; Isaías 40:29; Romanos 12:2; Salmo 73:26
- 17 Romanos 8:18; 1 Pedro 5:10; Romanos 5:3–5; Santiago 1:12; Hebreos 12:10–11
- 18 2 Corintios 5:7; Romanos 8:24–25; Hebreos 11:1; 1 Juan 2:16–17; 1 Juan 2:25
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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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).
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.
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)