1 P ablo, apóstol de Jesucristo por la voluntad de Dios, y el hermano Timoteo, a la iglesia de Dios que está en Corinto, con todos los santos que están en toda Acaya:

Paul, an apostle (a special messenger) of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy brother, to the church (assembly) of God which is at Corinth, and to all the saints (the people of God) throughout Achaia (most of Greece):

2 G racia y paz a vosotros de Dios nuestro Padre, y del Señor Jesucristo. Aflicciones de Pablo

Grace (favor and spiritual blessing) to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

3 B endito sea el Dios y Padre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, Padre de misericordias y Dios de toda consolación,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of sympathy (pity and mercy) and the God of every comfort (consolation and encouragement),

4 e l cual nos consuela en todas nuestras tribulaciones, para que podamos también nosotros consolar a los que están en cualquier tribulación, por medio de la consolación con que nosotros somos consolados por Dios.

Who comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction), so that we may also be able to comfort (console and encourage) those who are in any kind of trouble or distress, with the comfort (consolation and encouragement) with which we ourselves are comforted (consoled and encouraged) by God.

5 A sí como abundan en nosotros las aflicciones de Cristo, así abunda también por el mismo Cristo nuestra consolación.

For just as Christ’s '> own] sufferings fall to our lot abundantly, so through Christ comfort (consolation and encouragement) is also abundantly by us.

6 P ero si somos atribulados es para vuestra consolación y salvación; o si somos consolados es para vuestra consolación y salvación, la cual se realiza en el sufrir las mismas aflicciones que nosotros también padecemos.

But if we are troubled (afflicted and distressed), it is for your comfort (consolation and encouragement) and salvation; and if we are comforted (consoled and encouraged), it is for your comfort (consolation and encouragement), which works when you patiently endure the same evils (misfortunes and calamities) that we also suffer and undergo.

7 Y nuestra esperanza respecto de vosotros es firme, pues sabemos que así como sois compañeros en las aflicciones, también lo sois en la consolación.

And our hope for you is ever unwavering (assured and unshaken); for we know that just as you share and are partners in sufferings and calamities, you also share and are partners in comfort (consolation and encouragement).

8 H ermanos, no queremos que ignoréis acerca de la tribulación que nos sobrevino en Asia, pues fuimos abrumados en gran manera más allá de nuestras fuerzas, de tal modo que aun perdimos la esperanza de conservar la vida.

For we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about the affliction and oppressing distress which befell us in Asia, how we were so utterly and unbearably weighed down and crushed that we despaired even of life.

9 P ero tuvimos en nosotros mismos sentencia de muerte, para que no confiáramos en nosotros mismos, sino en Dios que resucita a los muertos.

Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death, but that was to keep us from trusting in and depending on ourselves instead of on God Who raises the dead.

10 É l nos libró y nos libra y esperamos que aun nos librará de tan grave peligro de muerte.

Who rescued and saved us from such a perilous death, and He will still rescue and save us; in and on Him we have set our hope (our joyful and confident expectation) that He will again deliver us '> draw us to Himself],

11 P ara ello contamos con vuestras oraciones a nuestro favor; y así, siendo muchos los que interceden por nosotros, también serán muchos los que darán gracias por el don concedido a nosotros. Por qué Pablo postergó su visita a Corinto

While you also cooperate by your prayers for us. Thus many persons give thanks on our behalf for the grace (the blessing of deliverance) granted us at the request of the many who have prayed.

12 N uestro motivo de orgullo es éste: el testimonio de nuestra conciencia, de que con sencillez y sinceridad de Dios (no con sabiduría humana, sino con la gracia de Dios), nos hemos conducido en el mundo, y mucho más con vosotros.

It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues).

13 N o os escribimos otras cosas de las que leéis o también entendéis; y espero que hasta el fin las entenderéis;

For we write you nothing else but simply what you can read and understand, and I hope that you will become thoroughly acquainted '> divine things] and know and understand accurately and well to the end,

14 c omo también en parte habéis entendido que somos vuestro motivo de orgullo, así como también vosotros lo seréis para nosotros en el día del Señor Jesús.

as you have partially known and understood and acknowledged us and recognized that you can be proud of us, even as we of you on the day of our Lord Jesus.

15 C on esta confianza quise ir primero a vosotros para daros una doble alegría:

It was with assurance of this that I wanted and planned to visit you first, so that you might have a double favor and token of grace (goodwill).

16 d e ahí pasar a Macedonia y desde Macedonia regresar a vosotros para ser encaminado por vosotros a Judea.

to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia and have you send me forward on my way to Judea.

17 A sí que, al proponerme esto, ¿actué precipitadamente? O lo que pienso hacer, ¿lo pienso según la carne, para que haya en mí «sí» y «no»?

Now because I changed my original plan, was I being unstable and capricious? Or what I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, ready to say Yes, yes, No, no?

18 P ero como Dios es fiel, nuestra palabra a vosotros no es «sí» y «no»,

As surely as God is trustworthy and faithful and means what He says, our speech and message to you have not been Yes No.

19 p orque el Hijo de Dios, Jesucristo, que entre vosotros ha sido predicado por nosotros —por mí, Silvano y Timoteo—, no ha sido «sí» y «no», sino solamente «sí» en él,

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who has been preached among you by us, by myself, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not Yes and No; but in Him it is Yes.

20 p orque todas las promesas de Dios son en él «sí», y en él «Amén», por medio de nosotros, para la gloria de Dios.

For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes in Him. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him to the glory of God.

21 Y el que nos confirma con vosotros en Cristo, y el que nos ungió, es Dios,

But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us '> enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit];

22 e l cual también nos ha sellado y nos ha dado, como garantía, el Espíritu en nuestros corazones.

putting His seal upon us and giving us His Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee.

23 I nvoco a Dios por testigo sobre mi alma, que por ser indulgente con vosotros no he pasado todavía a Corinto.

But I call upon God as my soul’s witness: it was to avoid hurting you that I refrained from coming to Corinth—

24 N o que nos enseñoreemos de vuestra fe, sino que colaboramos para vuestro gozo porque por la fe estáis firmes.

Not that we have dominion and lord it over your faith, but fellow laborers your joy, for in faith ( in your strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through Whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God) you stand firm.