2 Corinthians 6
Living Bible
6 As God’s partners, we beg you not to toss aside this marvelous message of God’s great kindness. 2 For God says, “Your cry came to me at a favorable time, when the doors of welcome were wide open. I helped you on a day when salvation was being offered.” Right now God is ready to welcome you. Today he is ready to save you.
3 We try to live in such a way that no one will ever be offended or kept back from finding the Lord by the way we act, so that no one can find fault with us and blame it on the Lord. 4 In fact, in everything we do we try to show that we are true ministers of God.
We patiently endure suffering and hardship and trouble of every kind. 5 We have been beaten, put in jail, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, stayed awake through sleepless nights of watching, and gone without food. 6 We have proved ourselves to be what we claim by our wholesome lives and by our understanding of the Gospel and by our patience. We have been kind and truly loving and filled with the Holy Spirit. 7 We have been truthful, with God’s power helping us in all we do. All of the godly man’s arsenal—weapons of defense, and weapons of attack—have been ours.
8 We stand true to the Lord whether others honor us or despise us, whether they criticize us or commend us. We are honest, but they call us liars.
9 The world ignores us, but we are known to God; we live close to death, but here we are, still very much alive. We have been injured but kept from death. 10 Our hearts ache, but at the same time we have the joy of the Lord. We are poor, but we give rich spiritual gifts to others. We own nothing, and yet we enjoy everything.
11 Oh, my dear Corinthian friends! I have told you all my feelings; I love you with all my heart. 12 Any coldness still between us is not because of any lack of love on my part but because your love is too small and does not reach out to me and draw me in. 13 I am talking to you now as if you truly were my very own children. Open your hearts to us! Return our love!
14 Don’t be teamed with those who do not love the Lord, for what do the people of God have in common with the people of sin? How can light live with darkness? 15 And what harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a Christian be a partner with one who doesn’t believe? 16 And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For you are God’s temple, the home of the living God, and God has said of you, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.” 17 That is why the Lord has said, “Leave them; separate yourselves from them; don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you 18 and be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters.”
2 Corintios 6
Palabra de Dios para Todos
6 Nosotros trabajamos junto con Dios y por eso les rogamos que no desaprovechen el generoso amor que recibieron de él. 2 (A)Porque Dios dice:
«Te escuché en el momento preciso
y te ayudé cuando llegó el día de salvación».[a]
¡Escuchen! Este es el momento preciso. Hoy es el día de salvación.
3 No queremos que la gente vea algo malo en nuestro trabajo. Por eso no hacemos nada que pueda ser un obstáculo para alguien. 4 Al contrario, en todo lo que hacemos demostramos que somos siervos de Dios. Soportamos muchos sufrimientos, dificultades, necesidades y aprietos. 5 Nos golpean y nos meten en la cárcel. Nos encontramos con gente que se enoja con nosotros y arma alborotos. Trabajamos duro y a veces no dormimos ni comemos. 6 Demostramos que somos siervos de Dios con nuestra vida limpia, nuestro entendimiento, nuestra paciencia y nuestra bondad. Lo hacemos por el Espíritu Santo, por nuestro amor sincero, 7 por nuestro mensaje verdadero y por el poder de Dios. Vivir con rectitud nos da las armas para defendernos de cualquier ataque. 8 Algunas veces nos respetan y otras veces nos ofenden; algunas veces nos alaban y otras nos insultan; algunos dicen que somos mentirosos, pero nosotros hablamos con la verdad. 9 Algunos nos tratan como a desconocidos, pero Dios nos conoce; algunos creen que nos estamos muriendo, pero miren, aun estamos vivos; nos han castigado, pero no nos han matado. 10 Parece que estuviéramos tristes, pero siempre estamos alegres; parecemos pobres, pero siempre estamos enriqueciendo espiritualmente a muchos; parece que no tuviéramos nada, pero en realidad lo tenemos todo.
11 A todos ustedes que viven en Corinto les hemos hablado con toda libertad y les hemos abierto nuestro corazón. 12 No se han acabado los sentimientos ni el amor que tenemos por ustedes. Son ustedes los que ya no sienten amor por nosotros. 13 Les hablo como si fueran mis hijos. Hagan lo mismo que hemos hecho nosotros: muéstrennos el mismo afecto.
Advertencia sobre los que no creen
14 Ustedes no son iguales a los que no tienen fe en Cristo. Entonces no se junten con ellos.[b] ¿Acaso hay algo en común entre la justicia y la injusticia? ¿Cómo puede estar la luz junto con la oscuridad? 15 ¿Es que puede haber un pacto entre Cristo y Satanás[c]? ¿Qué puede haber en común entre un creyente y alguien que no cree en Cristo? 16 (B)El templo de Dios[d] no puede tener ningún pacto con los ídolos y nosotros somos el templo del Dios viviente. Así como Dios dijo: «Viviré y caminaré con ellos; yo seré su Dios y ellos serán mi pueblo».[e] 17 (C)Y por eso dice el Señor:
«Salgan de entre esa gente
y sepárense de ellos.
No toquen nada impuro
y yo los aceptaré».[f]
18 (D)«Seré su Padre
y ustedes serán mis hijos y mis hijas.
Así dice el Señor Todopoderoso».[g]
Footnotes
- 6:2 Cita de Is 49:8.
- 6:14 Ustedes no son […] con ellos Textualmente No se unan en yugo desigual con los incrédulos.
- 6:15 Satanás Textualmente Belial. Se deriva de la palabra hebrea belial que significa inútil, ruin, usada para referirse al diablo o al Anticristo.
- 6:16 templo de Dios Casa de Dios, el lugar donde la gente le rinde culto. Aquí significa que los creyentes son el templo espiritual donde habita Dios.
- 6:16 Cita de Lv 26:12; Ez 37:27.
- 6:17 Cita de Is 52:11.
- 6:18 Cita de 2 S 7:14; 7:8.
2 Corinthians 6
King James Version
6 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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