1 N ow as to the matters of which you wrote me. It is well for a man not to touch a woman but to remain unmarried.

¶ En cuanto a las cosas de que me escribisteis, bien es al hombre no tocar mujer.

2 B ut because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each have his own wife and let each have her own husband.

Mas por evitar las fornicaciones, cada uno tenga su mujer, y cada una tenga su marido.

3 T he husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights (goodwill, kindness, and what is due her as his wife), and likewise the wife to her husband.

El marido pague a la mujer la debida benevolencia; y asimismo la mujer al marido.

4 F or the wife does not have authority and control over her own body, but the husband; likewise also the husband does not have authority and control over his body, but the wife.

La mujer no tiene potestad de su propio cuerpo, sino el marido; e igualmente tampoco el marido tiene potestad de su propio cuerpo, sino la mujer.

5 D o not refuse and deprive and defraud each other, except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves unhindered to prayer. But afterwards resume marital relations, lest Satan tempt you through your lack of restraint of sexual desire.

No os defraudéis el uno al otro, a no ser por algún tiempo de mutuo consentimiento, para ocuparos en ayuno y oración; y volved a juntaros en uno, para que no os tiente Satanás a causa de vuestra incontinencia.

6 B ut I am saying this more as a matter of permission and concession, not as a command or regulation.

Mas esto digo por permiso, no por mandamiento.

7 I wish that all men were like I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of this kind and one of another.

Quisiera más bien que todos los hombres fueran como yo; pero cada uno tiene su propio don de Dios; uno a la verdad así, y otro así.

8 B ut to the unmarried people and to the widows, I declare that it is well (good, advantageous, expedient, and wholesome) for them to remain even as I do.

Digo, pues, a los por casar y a los viudos, que bueno les es si se quedaren como yo.

9 B ut if they have not self-control (restraint of their passions), they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame.

Y si no tienen don de continencia, cásense; que mejor es casarse que quemarse.

10 B ut to the married people I give charge—not I but the Lord—that the wife is not to separate from her husband.

¶ Mas a los que están juntos en matrimonio, denuncio, no yo, sino el Señor; Que la mujer no se aparte del marido;

11 B ut if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband. And the husband that he should not put away or divorce his wife.

y si se apartare, que se quede sin casar, o reconcíliese con su marido; y que el marido no despida a su mujer.

12 T o the rest I declare—I, not the Lord —that if any brother has a wife who does not believe and she consents to live with him, he should not leave or divorce her.

Y a los demás yo digo, no el Señor: si algún hermano tiene mujer incrédula, y ella consiente para habitar con él, no la despida.

13 A nd if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she should not leave or divorce him.

Y la mujer que tiene marido incrédulo, y él consiente para habitar con ella, no lo deje.

14 F or the unbelieving husband is set apart (separated, withdrawn from heathen contamination, and affiliated with the Christian people) by union with his consecrated (set-apart) wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart and separated through union with her consecrated husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean (unblessed heathen, outside the Christian covenant), but as it is they are prepared for God.

Porque el marido incrédulo es santificado en la mujer (fiel), y la mujer incrédula en el marido (fiel); de otra manera ciertamente vuestros hijos serían inmundos; pero ahora son santos.

15 B ut if the unbelieving partner leaves, let him do so; in such brother or sister is not morally bound. But God has called us to peace.

Pero si el incrédulo se aparta, apartese; que el hermano o la hermana no está sujeto a servidumbre en semejante caso; antes a paz nos llamó Dios.

16 F or, wife, how can you be sure of converting and saving your husband? Husband, how can you be sure of converting and saving your wife?

Porque ¿de dónde sabes, oh mujer, si quizá harás salvo a tu marido? ¿O de dónde sabes, oh marido, si quizá harás salva a tu mujer?

17 O nly, let each one lead the life which the Lord has allotted and imparted to him and to which God has invited and summoned him. This is my order in all the churches.

¶ Sino que cada uno como el Señor le repartió, y como Dios llamó a cada uno, así ande; y así ordeno en todas las Iglesias.

18 W as anyone at the time of his summons already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the evidence of circumcision. Was anyone at the time called him uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

¿Es llamado alguno circuncidado? Quédese circunciso. ¿Es llamado alguno incircuncidado? Que no se circuncide.

19 F or circumcision is nothing and counts for nothing, neither does uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.

La circuncisión nada es, y la incircuncisión nada es; sino la observancia de los mandamientos de Dios.

20 E veryone should remain after God calls him in the station or condition of life in which the summons found him.

Cada uno en la vocación en que fue llamado, en ella se quede.

21 W ere you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. But if you are able to gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.

¿Eres llamado siendo siervo? No te dé cuidado; mas también si puedes hacerte libre, procúralo más.

22 F or he who as a slave was summoned in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just so he who was free when he was called is a bond servant of Christ (the Messiah).

Porque el que en el Señor es llamado siendo siervo, liberto es del Señor; asimismo también el que es llamado siendo libre, siervo es del Cristo.

23 Y ou were bought with a price; then do not yield yourselves up to become slaves to men.

Por precio sois comprados; no os hagáis siervos de los hombres.

24 S o, brethren, in whatever station or state or condition of life each one was when he was called, there let him continue with and close to God.

Cada uno, hermanos, en lo que fue llamado, en esto se quede para con Dios.

25 N ow concerning the virgins (the marriageable maidens) I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion and advice as one who by the Lord’s mercy is rendered trustworthy and faithful.

¶ Pero de las vírgenes no tengo mandamiento del Señor; mas doy mi parecer, como hombre que ha alcanzado misericordia del Señor para ser fiel.

26 I think then, because of the impending distress, it is well (expedient, profitable, and wholesome) for a person to remain as he or she is.

Tengo, pues, esto por bueno a causa de la necesidad que apremia, por lo cual bueno es al hombre estarse así:

27 A re you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

¿Estás ligado a mujer? No procures soltarte. ¿Estáis suelto de mujer? No procures mujer.

28 B ut if you do marry, you do not sin, and if a virgin marries, she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have physical and earthly troubles, and I would like to spare you that.

Mas también si tomares mujer, no pecaste; y si la virgen se casare, no peca; pero aflicción de carne tendrán los tales; mas yo os dejo.

29 I mean, brethren, the appointed time has been winding down and it has grown very short. From now on, let even those who have wives be as if they had none,

Pero esto digo, hermanos, que el tiempo es corto; para los demás es, que los que tienen mujer sean como los que no la tienen,

30 A nd those who weep and mourn as though they were not weeping and mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they did not possess anything,

y los que lloran, como los que no lloran; y los que se regocijan, como los que no se regocijan; y los que compran, como los que no poseen;

31 A nd those who deal with this world '> overusing the enjoyments of this life] as though they were not absorbed by it and as if they had no dealings with it. For the outward form of this world (the present world order) is passing away.

y los que usan de este mundo, como los que no lo usan como si fuera propio; porque la apariencia de este mundo se pasa.

32 M y desire is to have you free from all anxiety and distressing care. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord;

Quisiera, pues, que estuvierais sin congoja. El soltero tiene cuidado de las cosas que son del Señor, cómo ha de agradar al Señor;

33 B ut the married man is anxious about worldly matters—how he may please his wife—

pero el que se casó tiene cuidado de las cosas que son del mundo, cómo ha de agradar a su mujer.

34 A nd he is drawn in diverging directions. And the unmarried woman or girl is concerned and anxious about the matters of the Lord, how to be wholly separated and set apart in body and spirit; but the married woman has her cares in earthly affairs—how she may please her husband.

Hay diferencia entre la mujer casada y la virgen, La mujer no casada tiene cuidado de las cosas del Señor, para ser santa así en el cuerpo como en el espíritu; mas la casada tiene cuidado de las cosas que son del mundo, cómo ha de agradar a su marido.

35 N ow I say this for your own welfare and profit, not to put restraint upon you, but to promote what is seemly and in good order and to secure your undistracted and undivided devotion to the Lord.

Esto, sin embargo, digo para vuestro provecho; no para echaros lazo, sino para lo honorable, y para que sin impedimento os sirváis al Señor.

36 B ut if any man thinks that he is not acting properly toward and in regard to his virgin, in case she is passing the bloom of her youth and if there is need for it, let him do what to him seems right; he does not sin; let them marry.

¶ Mas, si a alguno parece cosa fea en su hija, que pase ya de edad, y que así conviene que se haga, haga lo que quisiere, no peca; cásese.

37 B ut whoever is firmly established in his heart, not being forced by necessity but having control over his own will and desire, and has resolved this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he is doing well.

Pero el que está firme en su corazón, y no tiene necesidad, sino que tiene libertad de su voluntad, y determinó en su corazón esto, el guardar su hija, bien hace.

38 S o also then, he who gives his virgin (his daughter) in marriage does well, and he who does not give in marriage does better.

Así que, el que la da en casamiento, bien hace; y el que no la da en casamiento, hace mejor.

39 A wife is bound to her husband by law as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

¶ La mujer casada está atada a la ley, mientras vive su marido; mas si su marido muriere, libre es; cásese con quien quisiere, con tal que sea en el Señor.

40 B ut in my opinion is happier (more blessed and to be envied) if she does not remarry. And also I think I have the Spirit of God.

Pero más bienaventurada será si se quedare así, según mi consejo; y pienso que también yo tengo el Espíritu de Dios.