La Biblia de las Américas (Español) BLA
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14 No escribo esto para avergonzaros, sino para amonestaros como a hijos míos amados.
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I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.
15 Porque aunque tengáis innumerables maestros en Cristo, sin embargo no tenéis muchos padres; pues en Cristo Jesús yo os engendré por medio del evangelio.
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Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
16 Por tanto, os exhorto: sed imitadores míos.
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Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
17 Por esta razón os he enviado a Timoteo, que es mi hijo amado y fiel en el Señor, y él os recordará mis caminos, los caminos en Cristo, tal como enseño en todas partes, en cada iglesia.
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For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son 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.
18 Y algunos se han vuelto arrogantes, como si yo no hubiera de ir a vosotros.
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Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
19 Pero iré a vosotros pronto, si el Señor quiere, y conoceré, no las palabras de los arrogantes sino su poder.
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But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have.
20 Porque el reino de Dios no consiste en palabras, sino en poder.
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
21 ¿Qué queréis? ¿Iré a vosotros con vara, o con amor y espíritu de mansedumbre?
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What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
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