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2 Corintios 11
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Pablo y los falsos apóstoles

11 ¡Ojalá me aguanten unas cuantas tonterías! ¡Sí, aguántenmelas![a] 2 El celo que siento por ustedes proviene de Dios, pues los tengo prometidos a un solo esposo, que es Cristo, para presentárselos como una virgen pura. 3 Pero me temo que, así como la serpiente con su astucia engañó a Eva, los pensamientos de ustedes sean desviados de un compromiso puro y[b] sincero con Cristo. 4 Si alguien llega a ustedes predicando a un Jesús diferente del que hemos predicado nosotros o si reciben un espíritu o un evangelio diferente de los que ya recibieron, a ese lo aguantan con facilidad. 5 Pero considero que en nada soy inferior a esos «superapóstoles». 6 Quizás yo sea un mal orador, pero tengo conocimiento. Esto se lo hemos demostrado a ustedes de muchas maneras.

7 ¿Es que cometí un pecado al humillarme yo para enaltecerlos a ustedes, predicándoles las buenas noticias de Dios gratuitamente? 8 De hecho, despojé a otras iglesias al recibir de ellas ayuda para servirles a ustedes. 9 Cuando estuve entre ustedes y necesité algo, no fui una carga para nadie, pues los hermanos que llegaron de Macedonia suplieron mis necesidades. He evitado serles una carga en cualquier sentido y seguiré evitándolo. 10 Es tan cierto que la verdad de Cristo está en mí como lo es que nadie en las regiones de Acaya podrá privarme de este motivo de orgullo. 11 ¿Por qué? ¿Porque no los amo? ¡Dios sabe que sí! 12 Pero seguiré haciendo lo que hago, a fin de quitar todo pretexto a aquellos que, buscando una oportunidad para hacerse iguales a nosotros, se jactan de lo que hacen.

13 Tales individuos son falsos apóstoles, obreros estafadores, que se disfrazan de apóstoles de Cristo. 14 Y no es de extrañar, ya que Satanás mismo se disfraza de ángel de luz. 15 Por eso no es de sorprenderse que sus servidores se disfracen de servidores de la justicia. Su fin corresponderá con lo que merecen sus acciones.

Los sufrimientos de Pablo

16 Lo repito: Que nadie me tenga por insensato. Pero aun cuando así me consideren, de todos modos recíbanme, para poder jactarme un poco. 17 Al jactarme tan confiadamente, no hablo como quisiera el Señor, sino con insensatez. 18 Ya que muchos presumen como lo hace el mundo,[c] yo también lo haré. 19 Por ser tan sensatos, ustedes de buena gana aguantan a los insensatos. 20 Aguantan incluso a cualquiera que los esclaviza o los explota, o se aprovecha de ustedes, o se comporta con altanería, o los golpea. 21 ¡Para vergüenza mía, confieso que hemos sido demasiado débiles!

Si alguien se atreve a dárselas de algo, también yo me atrevo a hacerlo y lo digo como un insensato. 22 ¿Son ellos hebreos? Pues yo también. ¿Son israelitas? También yo lo soy. ¿Son descendientes de Abraham? Yo también. 23 ¿Son servidores de Cristo? ¡Qué locura! Yo lo soy más que ellos. He trabajado más arduamente, he sido encarcelado más veces, he recibido los azotes más severos, he estado en peligro de muerte repetidas veces. 24 Cinco veces recibí de los judíos los treinta y nueve azotes. 25 Tres veces me golpearon con varas, una vez me apedrearon, tres veces naufragué, y pasé un día y una noche como náufrago en alta mar. 26 Mi vida ha sido un continuo ir y venir de un sitio a otro; en peligros de ríos, peligros de bandidos, peligros de parte de mis compatriotas, peligros a manos de los no judíos, peligros en la ciudad, peligros en el campo, peligros en el mar y peligros de parte de falsos hermanos. 27 He pasado muchos trabajos y fatigas, muchas veces me he quedado sin dormir, he sufrido hambre y sed. Muchas veces me he quedado en ayunas y he sufrido frío y desnudez. 28 Y como si fuera poco, cada día pesa sobre mí la preocupación por todas las iglesias. 29 Cuando alguien se siente débil, ¿no comparto yo su debilidad? Y cuando a alguien se le hace pecar, ¿no ardo yo de indignación?

30 Si me veo obligado a jactarme, me jactaré de mi debilidad. 31 El Dios y Padre del Señor Jesús, quien es por siempre bendito, sabe que no miento. 32 En Damasco, el gobernador bajo el rey Aretas mandó que se vigilara la ciudad de los damascenos con el fin de arrestarme; 33 pero me bajaron en un canasto por una ventana de la muralla, y así escapé de las manos del gobernador.

Footnotes

  1. 11:1 ¡Sí, aguántenmelas! Alt. En realidad, ya me las están aguantando.
  2. 11:3 Var. no incluye: puro y.
  3. 11:18 presumen … mundo. Lit. se jactan según la carne.
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2 Corinthians 11
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11 2 He testifieth that for the great loves sake he beareth to the Corinthians, he is compelled  5 to utter his own praises: 9 and that he bestowed his labor on them without any reward, 13 that the false apostles should not surpass him in anything, 22 whom he far excelled in those things which are praiseworthy indeed.

1 Would [a]to God, ye could suffer a little my foolishness, and indeed, ye suffer me.

2 For I am jealous over you, with [b]godly jealousy: for I have prepared you for one husband, to [c]present you as a pure virgin to Christ:

3 But I fear lest as the (A)serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be [d]corrupt from the simplicity that is in [e]Christ:

4 [f]For if he that cometh, preacheth [g]another Jesus whom we have not preached: or if ye receive another spirit whom ye have not received: either another Gospel which ye have not received, ye might well have suffered him.

5 Verily I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chief Apostles.

6 [h]And though I be [i]rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge, but among you we have been made manifest to the uttermost, in all things.

7 [j]Have I committed an offence, because I abased myself, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you the Gospel of God freely?

8 I robbed other Churches, and took wages of them to do you service.

9 And when I was present with you, and had need, (B)I was not slothful to the hindrance of any man: for that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all things I kept, [k]and will keep myself, that I should not be grievous unto you.

10 The [l]truth of Christ is in me, that this rejoicing shall not be [m]shut up against me in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

12 But what I do, that will I do, that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like unto us in that wherein they [n]rejoice.

13 [o]For such false apostles are deceitful workers, and transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ.

14 And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of [p]light.

15 Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transform themselves, as though they were the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

16 [q]I say again, Let no man think that I am foolish, or else take me even as a fool, that I also may boast myself a little.

17 That I speak, I speak it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.

18 Seeing that many rejoice after [the] flesh, I will rejoice also.

19 For ye suffer fools gladly, because that ye are wise.

20 [r]For ye suffer, even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

21 I speak as concerning the [s]reproach: as though that we had been [t]weak: but wherein any man is bold (I speak foolishly) I am bold also.

22 They are Hebrews, (C)so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seed of Abraham, so am I.

23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as a fool) I am [u]more: in labors more abundant: in stripes above measure: in prison more plenteously: in [v]death oft.

24 Of the Jews [w]five times received I forty stripes save one.

25 I was [x]thrice (D)beaten with rods: I was (E)once stoned: I suffered thrice (F)shipwreck: night and day have I been in the deep sea.

26 In journeying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine own nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,

27 In weariness and [y]painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

28 [z]Beside the things which are outward, I am cumbered daily, and have the care of all the Churches.

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?

30 [aa]If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities.

31 The God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

32 In (G)Damascus the governor of the people under King Aretas, laid watch in the city of the Damascenes, and would have caught me.

33 But at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall, and escaped his hands.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:1 He granteth that after a sort he playeth the fool in this vaunting of things, but he addeth that he doeth it against his will, for their profit because he seeth them deceived by certain vain and crafty men, through the craft and subtlety of Satan.
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:2 He speaketh as a woer, but yet as one that seeketh them not for himself, but for God.
  3. 2 Corinthians 11:2 To marry you together.
  4. 2 Corinthians 11:3 This place is to be marked against them which loathe that plain and pure simplicity of the Scriptures, in comparison of the colors and paintings of man’s eloquence.
  5. 2 Corinthians 11:3 Which is meet for them that are in Christ.
  6. 2 Corinthians 11:4 He showeth that they deceive themselves, if they look to receive of any other man, either a more excellent Gospel, or more excellent gifts of the holy Ghost.
  7. 2 Corinthians 11:4 A more perfect doctrine of Jesus Christ.
  8. 2 Corinthians 11:6 He refuteth the slanders of those Thrasoes. I grant, saith he, that I am not so eloquent an Orator, but yet they cannot take away the knowledge of the Gospel from me, whereof you have had good proof, and that every manner of way.
  9. 2 Corinthians 11:6 Paul lacked not the kind of eloquence which is meet for a man, and fit for the Gospel, but he willingly wanted that painted kind of speech, which too many nowadays hunt after and follow.
  10. 2 Corinthians 11:7 Another slander, to wit, that he was a rascal, and lived by the labor of his own hands. But herein, saith the Apostle, what can you lay against me, but that I was content to take any pains for your sakes, and when I lacked, to travail for my living with mine own hands in part, and partly also when poverty constrained me, I chose rather otherwise to seek my sustenance, than to be any burden to you, although I preached the Gospel unto you?
  11. 2 Corinthians 11:9 An amplification: so far is he from being ashamed of this act, that he hath also resolved with himself to do no otherwise hereafter amongst them, to the intent that it may always be truly said, that he taught in Achaia for nothing: not that he disdaineth the Corinthians, but that these Thrasoes may never find the occasion which they have already sought for, and he in the mean season may set something before them to follow, that at length they may truly say, that they are like to Paul.
  12. 2 Corinthians 11:10 This is a form of an oath, as if he said, let me not be thought to have any truth in me.
  13. 2 Corinthians 11:10 Shall be always open to me.
  14. 2 Corinthians 11:12 Paul’s adversaries sought all occasions they could, to be equal to him. And therefore seeing they had rather eat up the Corinthians, than preach to them for nothing, they sought another occasion, to wit, to make Paul to take something: which thing if he had done, then hoped they by that means to be equal to him: for they made such a show of zeal and knowledge, and set it forth with such a glossing kind of eloquence, that some of them even despised Paul: but he showeth that all this is nothing but colors and painting.
  15. 2 Corinthians 11:13 Now at length he pointeth out these fellows in their colors, forewarning that it will come to pass, that they will at length betray themselves, what countenance soever they make of zeal that they have to God’s glory.
  16. 2 Corinthians 11:14 By light is meant the heavenly glory, whereof the Angels are partakers.
  17. 2 Corinthians 11:16 He goeth forward boldly, and using a vehement Irony of kind of taunting, desireth the Corinthians to pardon him, if for a time he contend as a fool before them being wise, with those jolly fellows touching those eternal things, to wit, touching his stock, his ancestors and valiant acts.
  18. 2 Corinthians 11:20 Before he cometh to the matter, he toucheth the Corinthians, who persuading themselves to very wise men, did not mark in the mean season that those false apostles abused their simplicity for advantage.
  19. 2 Corinthians 11:21 As if he said, in respect of that reproach which they do unto you (I speak it) which surely is as evil as if they did beat you.
  20. 2 Corinthians 11:21 Paul is called weak, in that he seemeth to the Corinthians a vile and abject man, a beggarly artificer, a most wretched and miserable idiot, whereas notwithstanding therein God’s mighty power was made manifest.
  21. 2 Corinthians 11:23 Paul being honorable indeed, defendeth his ministry openly, not for his own sake, but because he saw his doctrine come into hazard.
  22. 2 Corinthians 11:23 In danger of present death.
  23. 2 Corinthians 11:24 He alludeth to that that is written, Deut. 25:3, and moreover this place showeth us, that Paul suffered many things which Luke passed over.
  24. 2 Corinthians 11:25 Of the Roman Magistrates.
  25. 2 Corinthians 11:27 Painfulness is a troublesome sickness, as when a man who is weary and would rest, he is constrained to fall to new labor.
  26. 2 Corinthians 11:28 He addeth this in conclusion further, that the Corinthians might be ashamed to despise him, upon whose care almost all Churches depended, as it was plainly seen by experience.
  27. 2 Corinthians 11:30 He turneth that against the adversaries, which they objected against him: as if he should say, They allege my calamities, to take away my authority from me: but if I would boast myself, I would take no better argument: and God himself is my witness that I devise and forge nothing.
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