1 Corintios 7

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

With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man to remain single.

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

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

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

A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.

4 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.

It is not the wife, but the husband, who exercises power over her body; and so, too, it is not the husband, but the wife, who exercises power over his body.

5 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.

Do not deprive each other of what is due – unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer until you again live as man and wife – otherwise Satan might take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.

6 Mas esto digo por permisión, no por mandamiento.

I say this, however, as a concession, not as a command.

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

I should wish everyone to be just what I am myself. But everyone has his own gift from God – one in one way, and one in another.

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

My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be good for them to remain as I am myself.

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

But, if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.

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

To those who are married my direction is – yet it is not mine, but the Master’s – that a woman is not to leave her husband

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

(If she has done so, she should remain as she is, or else be reconciled to her husband) and also that a man is not to divorce his wife.

12 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.

To all others I say – I, not the Master – If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;

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

and a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.

14 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.

For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people through the Lord’s follower whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be ‘defiled,’ but, as it is, they belong to Christ’s people.

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

However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let them be so. Under such circumstances neither is bound; God has called you to live in peace.

16 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?

How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? And how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?

17 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.

In any case, a person should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to them, and in which they were when God called them. This is the rule that I lay down in every church.

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

Was a man already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not efface his circumcision. Has a man been called when uncircumcised? Then he should not be circumcised.

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

Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.

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

Let everyone remain in that condition of life in which they were when the call came to them.

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

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.

22 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.

For the person who was a slave when they were called to the master’s service is the Master’s freedman; so, too, the person who was free when called is Christ’s slave.

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

You were bought, and the price was paid. Do not let yourselves become slaves to people.

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

Friends, let everyone remain in the condition in which they were when they were called, in close communion with God.

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

With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and the Master in his mercy has made me worthy to be trusted.

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

I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best – that a man should remain as he is.

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

Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.

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

Still, if you should marry, that is not wrong; nor, if a young woman marries, is that wrong. But those who marry will have much trouble to bear, and my wish is to spare you.

29 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,

What I mean, friends, is this – the time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,

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

those who are weeping as if not weeping, those who are rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those who buy as if not possessing,

31 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.

and those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.

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

I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master’s cause, desiring to please him;

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

while the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;

34 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.

and so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master’s cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.

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

I say this for your own benefit, not with any intention of putting a halter around your necks, but in order to secure for the Master seemly and constant devotion, free from all distraction.

36 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.

If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, he should act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong – let the marriage take place.

37 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.

On the other hand, a father, who has definitely made up his mind, and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has come to the decision, in his own mind, to keep his unmarried daughter at home will be doing right.

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

In short, the one who consents to his daughter’s marriage is doing right, and yet the other will be doing better.

39 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.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer.

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

Yet she will be happier if she remains as she is – in my opinion, for I think that I also have the Spirit of God.