1 Corintios 1
1 Esta carta viene de parte de Pablo, llamado para ser un apóstol de Jesucristo, conforme a la voluntad de Dios, y de parte de nuestro hermano Sóstenes.
I, Paul, [am writing this letter]. Sosthenes, our fellow believer, is with [me as I write it]. [God] appointed me to be an apostle of Christ Jesus because that is what God desired.
2 Es enviada a la iglesia de Dios en Corinto, a aquellos que han sido justificados en Cristo Jesús, llamados para vivir en santidad, y a todos los que adoran al Señor Jesús en todas partes, el Señor de ellos y de nosotros.
[I am sending this letter] to all you who are God’s believers in Corinth [city]. You have been set apart [by God] {[God] has set you apart} for himself because (of your close relationship with/you belong to) Christ Jesus. God has appointed you to be his people and to live in a morally pure way, just like he has appointed all the people everywhere who belong to him to live in a morally pure way. You and they have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ [MTY]. He is their sovereign Lord as well as the sovereign Lord of all of us [(inc)] who have trusted in him.
3 Reciban gracia y paz de parte de Dios, nuestro Padre, y del Señor Jesucristo.
We [(exc)] desire that God, who is our [heavenly] Father, and Jesus Christ, who is our sovereign Lord, will continue to act kindly toward you and cause you to experience [inner] peace.
4 Siempre le doy gracias a Dios por ustedes, y por la gracia que Dios les ha dado en Jesucristo.
I very often [HYP] thank God for you because he has acted toward you kindly, acting in ways that you do not deserve. He has done this because of your (having a close relationship with/being united to) Christ Jesus.
5 Por medio de él ustedes han recibido riqueza en todas las cosas, en todo lo que dicen y en cada aspecto de lo que saben.
That is, [God] has [HYP] helped you spiritually very much because of your (having a close relationship with/being united to) Christ. Specifically, God has very much [HYP] enabled you to speak messages [that his Spirit revealed to you], and he has very much enabled you to know many things [HYP] that his Spirit revealed to you.
6 De hecho, el testimonio de Cristo ha demostrado ser válido mediante la experiencia de ustedes,
In that way, [he] confirmed to you that what we [(exc)] proclaimed about Christ is true.
7 a fin de que no pierdan ningún don espiritual mientras esperan la venida de nuestro Señor Jesucristo.
As a result, while you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to return, within your group you truly have [LIT] every ability that [God’s] Spirit gives [to believers].
8 Él también les dará fortaleza hasta el final, a fin de que se mantengan rectos hasta el día del Señor Jesucristo.
God will also cause you to steadfastly [trust Christ to the very end of your lives] [EUP]. The result will be that God will not consider you guilty [of any sin] when our Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth [MTY].
9 Dios es fiel, y fue quien los llamó a compartir en hermandad con su Hijo Jesucristo, nuestro Señor.
You can depend on God to do that. He is the one who chose you to become intimately associated with his Son, Jesus Christ, who is our Lord.
10 Hermanos y hermanas, les ruego en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo que estén en armonía y no divididos. Por el contrario, desarrollen una conducta y propósito de estar unidos.
My fellow believers, by the authority of [MTY] our Lord Jesus Christ, I urgently appeal to all of you to agree with one another. What I mean is, stop dividing into groups. Instead, be united [MET] concerning what you understand [about spiritual matters], and be united in what you decide.
11 Porque de parte de Cloé, algunos me han dicho cosas de ustedes, mis hermanos y hermanas, me han dicho que hay discusiones entre ustedes.
My fellow believers, [I urge this] because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves.
12 Permítanme explicarles lo que quiero decir. Todos ustedes andan diciendo: “Yo sigo a Pablo”, o “Yo sigo a Apolo”, o “Yo sigo a Pedro”, o “Yo sigo a Cristo”.
That is, some of you say, “Paul is the one to whom we [are loyal],” and others say, “Peter is the one to whom we [are loyal],” and still others say, “Christ is the one to whom we [are loyal].”
13 ¿Acaso Cristo está dividido? ¿Acaso murió Pablo en una cruz por ustedes? ¿Acaso ustedes fueron bautizados en el nombre de Pablo?
[It is ridiculous that] [RHQ] [you are quarreling and] dividing up [into groups instead of being loyal to] Christ alone. Christ certainly has not divided himself into parts and distributed those parts out [to groups of people who oppose each other]! [MET, RHQ] I, Paul, certainly did not die on the cross for you! [RHQ] When you were baptized {When someone baptized you}, you certainly did not promise that you were submitting to me! [RHQ]
14 Estoy agradecido con Dios porque yo no bauticé a ninguno de ustedes, excepto a Crispo y a Gayo,
I thank [God] that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized.
15 así que nadie puede decir que fue bautizado en mi nombre.
As a result, no one [there in Corinth except those two] can say, “Paul baptized me so that I would become (his disciple/submissive to him).”
16 (Oh, y también bauticé a la familia de Estéfanas, y aparte de ellos no recuerdo a ningún otro).
[Now I remember that] I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else [there].
17 Pues Cristo no me envió a bautizar, sino a esparcir la buena noticia, y ni siquiera con sabiduría y elocuencia humana, de lo contrario la cruz de Cristo no tendría validez.
Christ sent me not [primarily] to baptize people but to preach the good message about him. When I do that, he does not want me to use words that human philosophers [consider] wise [IRO]. I do not want the message about [what] he [accomplished when he was nailed to] the cross [MTY] to lose its power.
18 Porque el mensaje de la cruz no tiene sentido para los que están perdidos, pero es poder de Dios para nosotros, los que somos salvos.
Those who are perishing spiritually [because they do not believe that message consider] that the message [about what Christ accomplished when he was nailed to the] cross [MTY] [is] foolish. But to us who are being saved {whom [God] is saving} [spiritually because we believe that message], it [demonstrates that] God acts powerfully [in order to save us].
19 Como dice la Escritura: “Yo destruiré la sabiduría del sabio, y desecharé el entendimiento de los inteligentes”.
[It is like what God said that] a prophet wrote long ago, [By the things that I will do], I will show that the ideas of those who [think] [IRO] they are wise are completely useless. I will ignore the ideas that they think are [IRO] so smart.
So, do you know [what God thinks] about what [RHQ] people who [IRO] consider themselves to be wise and scholars and philosophers say? [He does not pay attention to what they say, because] [RHQ] he has shown clearly that what unbelievers [think is] [IRO] wise is [not wise at all], but is really foolish. (aiōn g165)
21 ¿Acaso Dios ha convertido la sabiduría de este mundo en necedad? Puesto que Dios en su sabiduría no permitió que el mundo lo conociera por medio de su propia sabiduría, sino que su plan de gracia fue que por la necedad de la buena noticia fueran salvados los que creyeran en él.
God, acting very wisely, made it impossible for unbelievers to know God by doing what they thought was [IRO] wise. Instead, he was happy to save those who trust [in Christ] as the result of their hearing [the message that] was proclaimed to them, a message that others consider to be foolish.
22 Los judíos piden señales milagrosas, y los griegos buscan la sabiduría,
The Jews want [people to prove, by performing] miracles, [that their message is true]. The non-Jews want to hear only messages consisting of talk that they consider to be very wise.
23 pero nuestro mensaje es Cristo crucificado, lo cual es ofensivo para los judíos y necedad para los extranjeros.
As for us, we proclaim [the message about what] Christ [accomplished for us when] he was nailed {[when they] nailed him} to the cross. That message offends Jews [because they do not think that the Messiah will die, and] non-Jews think it is [IRO] a foolish message.
24 Sin embargo, para los que son llamados por Dios, tanto judíos como extranjeros, Cristo es el poder y la sabiduría de Dios.
But to us whom God has chosen to belong to himself, both Jews and non-Jews, that message shows that God acted powerfully and wisely [by sending] Christ [to die] for us.
25 Pues la necedad de Dios es más sabia que nosotros; y la debilidad de Dios es más fuerte.
[Unbelievers may think] [IRO] [that] God was [acting] foolishly [by doing that], but [the truth is that] he was acting more wisely than unbelievers who [just think that] [IRO] they are wise. And unbelievers may think that God was [acting] weakly [by sending his son to die], but he was acting more powerfully than unbelievers who [just think] [IRO] [that they] act powerfully.
26 Hermanos y hermanas, recuerden su llamado, y recuerden que este llamado no incluyó a muchos que son sabios, humanamente hablando, ni a muchos que son poderosos, así como tampoco a muchos que son importantes.
My fellow believers, remember what [kind of people you] were when God chose you. [Not many of you] whom he chose are people whom [unbelievers considered to be] wise. Very few of you were considered to be important. Very few of you came from families with a high social standing.
27 Por el contrario, Dios eligió las cosas que el mundo considera necedad para humillar a los que creen que son sabios. Escogió las cosas que el mundo considera débiles, para humillar a los que creen que son fuertes.
Instead, it was [usually] those whom [unbelievers considered to be] foolish whom God chose. He did that in order to shame/discredit those whom [unbelievers consider] [IRO] wise. It was [usually] those [whom unbelievers] considered [IRO] unimportant whom God chose, in order to shame/discredit those whom unbelievers consider important.
28 Escogió cosas que son irrelevantes y despreciadas por el mundo, incluso cosas que no son, para deshacer las cosas que son,
It was usually those who are despised and considered {whom [unbelievers] despise and consider} worthless whom God chose, in order to make completely ineffective [what unbelievers consider to be important].
29 a fin de que nadie pueda jactarse en la presencia de Dios.
[He did that] in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important.
30 Es por él que ustedes viven en Jesucristo, a quien Dios puso como sabiduría para nosotros. Él nos hace justos y nos hace libres.
It is because of what God [has done] that you (have a close relationship with/belong to) Christ Jesus. God [put into effect] his wise [plan to save us] by what Christ did for us. As a result of what Christ did, God erases the record of our sins, sets us apart for himself, and frees us from our being guilty [for our sins].
31 Así como dice la Escritura: “Quien quiera jactarse, que se jacte en el Señor”.
So, it is the Lord whom we should boast about, [not about one spiritual leader being better than another]. We should do as ([a prophet/Jeremiah]) wrote [in the Scriptures that we should do]: Those who boast should boast [only] about what the Lord [has done].
