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1 Corinthians 4
New International Reader's Version
1 Corinthians 4
New International Reader's Version
True Apostles of Christ
4 So here is how you should think of us. We serve Christ. We are trusted with the mysteries God has shown us. 2 Those who have been given a trust must prove that they are faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court. I don’t even judge myself. 4 I don’t feel I have done anything wrong. But that doesn’t mean I’m not guilty. The Lord judges me. 5 So don’t judge anything before the appointed time. Wait until the Lord returns. He will bring to light what is hidden in the dark. He will show the real reasons why people do what they do. At that time each person will receive their praise from God.
6 Brothers and sisters, I have used myself and Apollos as examples to help you. You can learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Don’t go beyond what is written.” Then you won’t be proud that you follow one of us instead of the other. 7 Who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you brag as though you did not?
8 You already have everything you want, don’t you? Have you already become rich? Have you already begun to rule? And did you do that without us? I wish that you really had begun to rule. Then we could also rule with you! 9 It seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of a parade. We are like people sentenced to die in front of a crowd. We have been made a show for the whole creation to see. Angels and people are staring at us. 10 We are fools for Christ. But you are so wise in Christ! We are weak. But you are so strong! You are honored. But we are looked down on! 11 Up to this very hour we are hungry and thirsty. We are dressed in rags. We are being treated badly. We have no homes. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When others curse us, we bless them. When we are attacked, we put up with it. 13 When others say bad things about us, we answer with kind words. We have become the world’s garbage. We are everybody’s trash, right up to this moment.
Paul Warns Against Pride
14 I am not writing this to shame you. You are my dear children, and I want to warn you. 15 Suppose you had 10,000 believers in Christ watching over you. You still wouldn’t have many fathers. I became your father by serving Christ Jesus and telling you the good news. 16 So I’m asking you to follow my example. 17 That’s the reason I have sent Timothy to you. He is like a son to me, and I love him. He is faithful in serving the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in serving Christ Jesus. And that agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Some of you have become proud. You act as if I weren’t coming to you. 19 But I will come very soon, if that’s what the Lord wants. Then I will find out how those proud people are talking. I will also find out what power they have. 20 The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk. It is a matter of power. 21 Which do you want? Should I come to you to correct and punish you? Or should I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
1 Corintios 4
La Biblia de las Américas
1 Corintios 4
La Biblia de las Américas
Solo Dios es juez
4 Que todo hombre nos considere de esta manera: como servidores de Cristo(A) y administradores(B) de los misterios de Dios(C). 2 Ahora bien, además se requiere de[a] los administradores que cada uno sea hallado fiel. 3 En cuanto a mí, es de poca importancia que yo sea juzgado por vosotros, o por cualquier tribunal[b] humano; de hecho, ni aun yo me juzgo a mí mismo. 4 Porque no estoy consciente(D) de nada en contra mía; mas no por eso estoy sin culpa(E), pues el que me juzga es el Señor. 5 Por tanto, no juzguéis(F) antes de tiempo[c], sino esperad hasta que el Señor venga(G), el cual sacará a la luz las cosas ocultas en las tinieblas y también pondrá de manifiesto los designios de los corazones(H); y entonces cada uno recibirá su alabanza de parte de Dios(I).
6 Esto, hermanos, lo he aplicado en sentido figurado a mí mismo y a Apolos por amor a vosotros, para que en nosotros aprendáis a no sobrepasar lo que está escrito(J), para que ninguno de vosotros se vuelva arrogante[d](K) a favor del uno contra el otro(L). 7 Porque ¿quién te distingue? ¿Qué tienes que no recibiste? Y si lo recibiste, ¿por qué te jactas como si no lo hubieras recibido(M)? 8 Ya estáis saciados, ya os habéis hecho ricos(N), ya habéis llegado a reinar sin necesidad de nosotros; y ojalá hubierais llegado a reinar, para que nosotros reinásemos también con vosotros. 9 Porque pienso que Dios nos ha exhibido a nosotros los apóstoles en último lugar, como a sentenciados a muerte(O); porque hemos llegado a ser un espectáculo para el mundo(P), tanto para los ángeles como para los hombres. 10 Nosotros somos necios por amor de Cristo(Q), mas vosotros, prudentes en Cristo(R); nosotros somos débiles(S), mas vosotros, fuertes; vosotros sois distinguidos, mas nosotros, sin honra. 11 Hasta el momento[e] presente pasamos hambre y sed, andamos mal vestidos[f], somos maltratados y no tenemos dónde vivir(T); 12 nos agotamos trabajando con nuestras propias manos(U); cuando nos ultrajan(V), bendecimos; cuando somos perseguidos(W), lo soportamos; 13 cuando nos difaman, tratamos de reconciliar[g]; hemos llegado a ser, hasta ahora, la escoria del mundo, el desecho de todo(X).
14 No escribo esto para avergonzaros(Y), sino para amonestaros como a hijos(Z) míos amados. 15 Porque aunque tengáis innumerables maestros[h] en Cristo(AA), sin embargo no tenéis muchos padres; pues en Cristo Jesús(AB) yo os engendré(AC) por medio del evangelio(AD). 16 Por tanto, os exhorto: sed imitadores míos(AE). 17 Por esta razón os he enviado a Timoteo(AF), que es mi hijo amado(AG) y fiel en el Señor, y él os recordará mis caminos, los caminos en Cristo, tal como enseño en todas partes, en cada iglesia(AH). 18 Y algunos se han vuelto arrogantes[i](AI), como si yo no hubiera de ir a vosotros(AJ). 19 Pero iré a vosotros(AK) pronto, si el Señor quiere(AL), y conoceré, no las palabras[j] de los arrogantes[k](AM) sino su poder. 20 Porque el reino de Dios no consiste en palabras[l], sino en poder(AN). 21 ¿Qué queréis? ¿Iré a vosotros con vara(AO), o con amor y espíritu de mansedumbre?
Footnotes
- 1 Corintios 4:2 Lit., en
- 1 Corintios 4:3 Lit., día
- 1 Corintios 4:5 Lit., no sigáis juzgando nada
- 1 Corintios 4:6 Lit., hinchado o inflado
- 1 Corintios 4:11 Lit., la hora
- 1 Corintios 4:11 Lit., estamos desnudos
- 1 Corintios 4:13 O, consolar
- 1 Corintios 4:15 O, preceptores
- 1 Corintios 4:18 Lit., hinchados o inflados
- 1 Corintios 4:19 Lit., la palabra
- 1 Corintios 4:19 Lit., hinchados o inflados
- 1 Corintios 4:20 Lit., palabra
1 Corinthians 4
New International Version
1 Corinthians 4
New International Version
The Nature of True Apostleship
4 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants(A) of Christ and as those entrusted(B) with the mysteries(C) God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience(D) is clear, but that does not make me innocent.(E) It is the Lord who judges me.(F) 5 Therefore judge nothing(G) before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes.(H) He will bring to light(I) what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.(J)
6 Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.”(K) Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other.(L) 7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive?(M) And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich!(N) You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! 9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die(O) in the arena. We have been made a spectacle(P) to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. 10 We are fools for Christ,(Q) but you are so wise in Christ!(R) We are weak, but you are strong!(S) You are honored, we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.(T) 12 We work hard with our own hands.(U) When we are cursed, we bless;(V) when we are persecuted,(W) we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage(X) of the world—right up to this moment.
Paul’s Appeal and Warning
14 I am writing this not to shame you(Y) but to warn you as my dear children.(Z) 15 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father(AA) through the gospel.(AB) 16 Therefore I urge you to imitate me.(AC) 17 For this reason I have sent to you(AD) Timothy,(AE) my son(AF) whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.(AG)
18 Some of you have become arrogant,(AH) as if I were not coming to you.(AI) 19 But I will come to you very soon,(AJ) if the Lord is willing,(AK) and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. 20 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of(AL) talk but of power.(AM) 21 What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline,(AN) or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
1 Corinthians 4
King James Version
1 Corinthians 4
King James Version
4 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
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