1 Corintios 2
1 Y cuando vine a ustedes, hermanos míos, no he venido con sabias palabras de conocimiento, para anunciarles el testimonio de Dios.
My fellow believers, when I came to you, I proclaimed to you the message that God had revealed to me. But I did not proclaim it using eloquent words that would make people think highly of me, nor did I argue in a way that unbelievers would think was very wise.
2 Porque yo había tomado la decisión de no saber de otra cosa entre ustedes, sino sólo de Jesucristo y a éste crucificado.
I did that because I decided that I would speak only about Jesus Christ. Specifically, I told you [what he accomplished for us when] he was killed by being nailed {[when they] killed him by nailing him} to a cross.
3 Y estuve contigo sin fuerzas, con mucho temblor y miedo.
Furthermore, when I was with you, I felt that I was not adequate [to do what Christ wanted me to do]. I was afraid [that I would not be able to do it], and because of that I was trembling very much.
4 Y en mi predicación no hubo palabras melodiosas de sabiduría, sino con demostración del Espíritu y de poder,
When I taught you and preached to you, I did not speak words that [unbelievers would consider] [IRO] wise in order to convince them that my message was true. Instead, [God’s] Spirit showed that it was true by [enabling me to] powerfully [perform miracles].
5 para que su fe no se base en la sabiduría del hombre sino en el poder de Dios.
[I taught and preached that way] in order that you might believe [my message], not because you heard words that people [considered to be] [IRO] wise, but [because you recognized] God’s power.
6 Pero hablamos sabiduría entre los que han alcanzado madurez en su fe; si usamos palabras de sabiduría, pero no se trata de una sabiduría propia de este mundo, y no de los gobernantes de este mundo, los cuales pronto van a desaparecer. (aiōn g165)
I do teach a message that people who are [spiritually] mature [consider to] be wise. But I do not teach a message that unbelievers [consider to be] wise. I also do not teach a message that unbelieving rulers in the world consider to be wise. [What they think about it does not matter], because [some day] (they will lose their power/not be ruling any more). (aiōn g165)
7 Pero hablamos de la sabiduría secreta de Dios, que había guardado antes de que el mundo existiera, para nuestra gloria; (aiōn g165)
Instead, I teach about what God planned wisely [long ago]. It is something that people did not know about previously because [God] did not reveal it previously. But God determined before he created the world that he would greatly benefit us by his wise plan. (aiōn g165)
8 De los cuales ninguno de los príncipes de este mundo tenía conocimiento; porque si lo hubiesen hecho, no habrían puesto al Señor de la gloria en la cruz; (aiōn g165)
None of those who rule this world knew that wise plan. If they had known it, they would not have nailed our wonderful Lord to the cross. (aiōn g165)
9 sino como dice en las Sagradas Escrituras, Cosas que el ojo no ha visto, y que no había llegado a los oídos ni al corazón del hombre, cosas que Dios ha preparado para quienes le aman.
But [we believers need to remember these words that a prophet] wrote [in the Scriptures]: Things that no one has ever seen, things that no one ever heard, things that no one ever thought could happen, those are the things that God has prepared for those who love him.
10 Pero Dios nos ha dado la revelación de estas cosas por su Espíritu, porque el Espíritu lo examina todo, aun las cosas más profundas de Dios.
God has caused his Spirit to reveal those things to us [(inc)] believers. His Spirit can do that because he knows thoroughly the meaning of all things. He even knows the things about God that are very difficult to understand.
11 Porque ¿quién tiene conocimiento de las cosas del hombre sino el espíritu del hombre que está en él? de la misma manera, nadie tiene conocimiento de las cosas de Dios, sino del Espíritu de Dios.
Only a person himself (OR, a person’s spirit) knows what he is thinking. Similarly, only God’s Spirit knows what God is thinking.
12 Pero no tenemos el espíritu del mundo, sino el Espíritu que viene de Dios, para que podamos conocer las cosas que nos son dadas gratuitamente por Dios.
It was not the ideas that unbelievers teach that we accepted. Instead, it was the Spirit who came from God that we received, in order that we might know the things that God has freely done for us.
13 Y estas son las cosas que decimos, no en el lenguaje de la sabiduría del hombre, sino en las palabras que nos enseña el Espíritu, juzgando las cosas espirituales a lo espiritual.
Those are the things that I tell you about. As I do that, I do not tell you things that someone [whom others thought] was [IRO] wise taught me. Instead, I tell you truths that [God’s] Spirit taught [me], and I explain those spiritual truths to people whose thinking is guided by God’s Spirit (OR, I teach spiritual [truths to] spiritual [people]).
14 Porque el hombre natural no puede asimilar las cosas del Espíritu de Dios; porque le parecen insensatas, y no puede entenderlas, porque se han de discernir espiritualmente.
Those who are unbelievers reject the truths that [God’s] Spirit teaches us [(inc)], because they [consider those truths to be] foolish. They cannot understand them, because it is God’s Spirit who enables us to evaluate those truths correctly, [and those people do not have God’s Spirit].
15 Pero el que tiene el Espíritu, aunque juzga todas las cosas, no es juzgado de nadie.
We who have God’s Spirit can judge correctly the [value of] all truths [that the Spirit reveals], but [unbelievers] cannot evaluate us correctly.
16 Porque ¿quién tiene conocimiento de la mente del Señor, para ser su maestro? Pero tenemos la mente de Cristo.
As [one of our prophets wrote: ] No human [RHQ] has known what the Lord is thinking. No human [RHQ] is able to instruct him. But we believers are able to think about things [MTY] in the way that Christ thinks about them.
