1 Corinthians 4

1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.

TÉNGANNOS los hombres por ministros de Cristo, y dispensadores de los misterios de Dios.

2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Mas ahora se requiere en los dispensadores, que cada uno sea hallado fiel.

3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.

Yo en muy poco tengo el ser juzgado de vosotros, [ó de cualquier] juicio humano; y ni aun yo me juzgo.

4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Porque aunque de nada tengo [mala] conciencia, no por eso soy justificado; mas el que me juzga el Señor es.

5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Así que no juzgueis nada ántes de tiempo, hasta que venga el Señor, el cual tambien aclarará lo oculto de las tinieblas, y manifestará los intentos de los corazones; y entónces cada uno tendrá de Dios la alabanza.

6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

Esto empero, hermanos, he pasado por ejemplo en mí y en Apólos por amor de vosotros; para que en nosotros aprendais á no saber más de lo que está escrito, hinchándoos por causa de otro el uno contra el otro.

7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Porque ¿quién te distingue? ó ¿qué tienes que no hayas recibido? Y si [lo] recibiste, ¿de qué te gloríes como si no hubieras recibido?

8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!

Ya estais hartos, ya estais ricos; sin nosotros reinais [ya; ] y ojalá reineis, para que nosotros reinemos tambien juntamente con vosotros.

9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Porque á lo que pienso, Dios nos ha mostrado á nosotros los apóstoles por los postreros, como á sentenciados á muerte: porque somos hechos espectáculo al mundo, y á los ángeles, y á los hombres.

10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Nosotros necios por amor de Cristo, y vosotros prudentes en Cristo; nosotros flacos, y vosotros fuertes; vosotros nobles, y nosotros viles.

11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Hasta esta hora hambreamos, y tenemos sed, y estamos desnudos, y somos heridos de golpes, y andamos vagabundos,

12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Y trabajamos, obrando con nuestras manos: nos maldicen, y bendecimos, padecemos persecucion, y sufrimos,

13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

Somos blasfemados, y rogamos: hemos venido á ser como la hez del mundo, el desecho de todos hasta ahora.

14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

No escribo esto para avergonzaros; mas amonéstoos como á mis hijos amados.

15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

Porque aunque tengais diez mil ayos en Cristo, no [tendreis] muchos padres; que en Cristo Jesus yo os engendré por el Evangelio.

16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

Por tanto os ruego que me imiteis.

17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Por lo cual os he enviado á Timotéo, que es mi hijo amado, y fiel en el Señor, el cual os amonestará de mis caminos cuales sean en Cristo, de la manera que enseño en todas partes, en todas las iglesias.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Mas algunos están envanecidos, como si nunca hubiese yo de ir á vosotros,

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

Empero iré presto á vosotros, si el Señor quisiere; y entenderé, no las palabras de los que [así] andan hinchados, sino la virtud.

20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Porque el reino de Dios no consiste en palabras, sino en virtud.

21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

¿Qué quereis? ¿iré á vosotros con vara, ó con caridad, y espíritu de mansedumbre?