1 Corintios 7
1 En cuanto a las cosas de que me escribisteis: bueno sería al hombre no tocar mujer.
I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.
2 Mas por evitar las fornicaciones, cada varón tenga su mujer, y cada mujer tenga su marido.
But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.
3 El marido pague a la mujer la debida benevolencia; y asimismo la mujer al marido.
Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
4 La mujer no tiene la potestad de su propio cuerpo, sino el marido; y por el semejante tampoco el marido tiene la potestad de su propio cuerpo, sino la mujer.
A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.
5 No os defraudéis el uno al otro, sino fuere algo por tiempo, de consentimiento de ambos, por ocuparos en ayuno y en oración; y volvéd a juntaros en uno, porque no os tiente Satanás a causa de vuestra incontinencia.
Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.
6 Mas esto digo por permisión, no por mandamiento.
Thus much in the way of concession, not of command.
7 Porque querría que todos los hombres fuesen como yo; empero cada uno tiene su propio don de Dios: uno de una manera, y otro de otra.
Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God--one in one direction and one in another.
8 Digo, pues, a los solteros y a las viudas, que bueno les es si se quedaren como yo.
But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.
9 Empero si no se pueden contener, cásense; que mejor es casarse, que quemarse.
If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.
10 Mas a los casados mando, y no yo, sino el Señor: Que la mujer no se aparte del marido.
But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;
11 Y si se apartare, quédese por casar, o reconcíliese con su marido; y que el marido no despida a su mujer.
or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.
12 Y a los demás yo digo, no el Señor: Si algún hermano tiene mujer no creyente, y ella consiente para habitar con él, no la despida.
To the rest it is I who speak--not the Lord. If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let him not send her away.
13 Y la mujer que tiene marido no creyente, y él consiente para habitar con ella, no le deje.
And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.
14 Porque el marido no creyente es santificado por la mujer; y la mujer no creyente es santificada por el marido; de otra manera vuestros hijos serían inmundos, empero ahora son santos.
For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.
15 Mas si el no creyente se aparta, apártese; que el hermano, o la hermana, no está sujeto a servidumbre en semejantes casos: antes a paz nos llamó Dios.
If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.
16 Porque ¿de dónde sabes, oh mujer, si quizá salvarás a tu marido? ¿o de dónde sabes, oh marido, si quizá salvarás a tu mujer?
For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?
17 Empero como el Señor repartió a cada uno, y como el Señor llamó a cada uno, así ande; y así yo lo ordeno en todas las iglesias.
Only, whatever be the condition in life which the Lord has assigned to each individual--and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him--in that let him continue.
18 ¿Es llamado alguno circuncidado? no se haga incircunciso: ¿es llamado alguno en incircuncisión? no se circuncide.
This is what I command in all the Churches. Was any one already circumcised when called? Let him not have recourse to the surgeons. Was any one uncircumcised when called? Let him remain uncircumcised.
19 La circuncisión nada es, y la incircuncisión nada es, sino la observancia de los mandamientos de Dios.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: obedience to God's commandments is everything.
20 Cada uno en la vocación en que fue llamado en ella se quede.
Whatever be the condition in life in which a man was, when he was called, in that let him continue.
21 ¿Eres llamado siendo siervo? no se te dé nada; mas también si puedes hacerte libre, usa antes de ello.
Were you a slave when God called you? Let not that weigh on your mind. And yet if you can get your freedom, take advantage of the opportunity.
22 Porque el que en el Señor es llamado siendo siervo, horro es del Señor: asimismo también el que es llamado siendo libre, siervo es de Cristo.
For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.
23 Por precio sois comprados, no os hagáis siervos de los hombres.
You have all been redeemed at infinite cost: do not become slaves to men.
24 Cada uno, hermanos, en lo que es llamado en esto se quede para con Dios.
Where each one stood when he was called, there, brethren, let him still stand--close to God.
25 Empero de las vírgenes no tengo mandamiento del Señor; mas doy mi parecer, como quien ha alcanzado misericordia del Señor para ser fiel.
Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.
26 Tengo, pues, esto por bueno a causa de la aflicción actual; digo, que bueno es al hombre estarse así.
I think then that, taking into consideration the distress which is now upon us, it is well for a man to remain as he is.
27 ¿Estás atado a mujer? no procures soltarte. ¿Estás suelto de mujer? no busques mujer.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.
28 Mas también si te casares, no pecaste; y si la virgen se casare, no pecó; pero aflicción en la carne tendrán los tales; mas yo os perdono.
Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.
29 Esto empero digo, hermanos, que el tiempo es corto: lo que resta es, que los que tienen mujeres sean como si no las tuviesen;
Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,
30 Y los que lloran, como si no llorasen; y los que se regocijan, como si no se regocijasen; y los que compran, como si no poseyesen;
those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,
31 Y los que usan de este mundo, como no abusando de él; porque la apariencia de este mundo se pasa.
and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.
32 Mas querría que estuvieseis sin cuidado. El soltero tiene cuidado de las cosas que pertenecen al Señor, como ha de agradar al Señor.
And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;
33 Empero el casado tiene cuidado de las cosas que son del mundo, como ha de agradar a su mujer.
but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.
34 Diferencia hay también entre la mujer casada y la virgen. La mujer por casar, tiene cuidado de las cosas del Señor, para ser santa así en cuerpo como en espíritu; mas la casada, tiene cuidado de las cosas del mundo, como ha de agradar a su marido.
There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.
35 Esto empero digo para vuestro propio provecho: no para echaros un lazo, sino para lo que es decente, y para que sin distracción sirváis al Señor.
Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.
36 Mas si a alguno parece cosa fea en su virgen, que pase ya de edad, y así conviene que se haga, haga lo que quisiere; no peca, que se casen.
If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.
37 Empero el que está firme en su corazón, y no tiene necesidad, mas tiene poder sobre su voluntad, y determinó en su corazón esto, de guardar su virgen, hace bien.
But if a father stands firm in his resolve, being free from all external constraint and having a legal right to act as he pleases, and in his own mind has come to the decision to keep his daughter unmarried, he will do well.
38 Así que el que da su virgen en casamiento, hace bien; mas el que no la da, hace mejor.
So that he who gives his daughter in marriage does well, and yet he who does not give her in marriage will do better.
39 La mujer casada está atada por la ley, mientras vive su marido; mas si su marido muriere, libre es para ser casada con quien quisiere; solamente en el Señor.
A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.
40 Empero más feliz es, según mi parecer, si se queda así; y pienso que también yo tengo el Espíritu de Dios.
But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.
