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2 Corintios 12

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1 El gloriarse es necesario, aunque no es provechoso; pasaré entonces a las visiones y revelaciones del Señor.

2 Conozco a un hombre en Cristo, que hace catorce años (no sé si en el cuerpo, no sé si fuera del cuerpo, Dios lo sabe) el tal fue arrebatado hasta el tercer cielo.

3 Y conozco a tal hombre (si en el cuerpo o fuera del cuerpo no lo sé, Dios lo sabe)

4 que fue arrebatado al paraíso, y escuchó palabras inefables que al hombre no se le permite expresar.

5 De tal hombre sí me gloriaré; pero en cuanto a mí mismo, no me gloriaré sino en mis debilidades.

6 Porque si quisiera gloriarme, no sería insensato, pues diría la verdad; mas me abstengo de hacerlo para que nadie piense de mí más de lo que ve en mí, u oye de mí.

7 Y dada la extraordinaria grandeza de las revelaciones, por esta razón, para impedir que me enalteciera, me fue dada una espina en la carne, un mensajero de Satanás que me abofetee, para que no me enaltezca.

8 Acerca de esto, tres veces he rogado al Señor para que lo quitara de mí.

9 Y El me ha dicho: Te basta mi gracia, pues mi poder se perfecciona en la debilidad. Por tanto, muy gustosamente me gloriaré más bien en mis debilidades, para que el poder de Cristo more en mí.

10 Por eso me complazco en las debilidades, en insultos, en privaciones, en persecuciones y en angustias por amor a Cristo; porque cuando soy débil, entonces soy fuerte.

11 Me he vuelto insensato; vosotros me obligasteis a ello. Pues yo debiera haber sido encomiado por vosotros, porque en ningún sentido fui inferior a los más eminentes apóstoles, aunque nada soy.

12 Entre vosotros se operaron las señales de un verdadero apóstol, con toda perseverancia, por medio de señales, prodigios, y milagros.

13 Pues ¿en qué fuisteis tratados como inferiores a las demás iglesias, excepto en que yo mismo no fui una carga para vosotros? ¡Perdonadme este agravio!

14 He aquí, esta es la tercera vez que estoy preparado para ir a vosotros, y no os seré una carga, pues no busco lo que es vuestro, sino a vosotros; porque los hijos no tienen la responsabilidad de atesorar para sus padres, sino los padres para sus hijos.

15 Y yo muy gustosamente gastaré lo mío, y aun yo mismo me gastaré por vuestras almas. Si os amo más, ¿seré amado menos?

16 Pero, en todo caso, yo no os fui carga; no obstante, siendo astuto, os sorprendí con engaño.

17 ¿Acaso he tomado ventaja de vosotros por medio de alguno de los que os he enviado?

18 A Tito le rogué que fuera, y con él envié al hermano. ¿Acaso obtuvo Tito ventaja de vosotros? ¿No nos hemos conducido nosotros en el mismo espíritu y seguido las mismas pisadas?

19 Todo este tiempo habéis estado pensando que nos defendíamos ante vosotros. En realidad, es delante de Dios que hemos estado hablando en Cristo; y todo, amados, para vuestra edificación.

20 Porque temo que quizá cuando yo vaya, halle que no sois lo que deseo, y yo sea hallado por vosotros que no soy lo que deseáis; que quizá haya pleitos, celos, enojos, rivalidades, difamaciones, chismes, arrogancia, desórdenes;

21 temo que cuando os visite de nuevo, mi Dios me humille delante de vosotros, y yo tenga que llorar por muchos que han pecado anteriormente y no se han arrepentido de la impureza, inmoralidad y sensualidad que han practicado.

The Message Bible MSG

1 You've forced me to talk this way, and I do it against my better judgment. But now that we're at it, I may as well bring up the matter of visions and revelations that God gave me.

2 For instance, I know a man who, fourteen years ago, was seized by Christ and swept in ecstasy to the heights of heaven. I really don't know if this took place in the body or out of it; only God knows.

3 I also know that this man was hijacked into paradise - again, whether in or out of the body, I don't know; God knows. There he heard the unspeakable spoken, but was forbidden to tell what he heard.

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5 This is the man I want to talk about. But about myself, I'm not saying another word apart from the humiliations.

6 If I had a mind to brag a little, I could probably do it without looking ridiculous, and I'd still be speaking plain truth all the way. But I'll spare you. I don't want anyone imagining me as anything other than the fool you'd encounter if you saw me on the street or heard me talk.

7 Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty!

8 At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that,

9 and then he told me, My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness.

10 Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size - abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.

11 Well, now I've done it! I've made a complete fool of myself by going on like this. But it's not all my fault; you put me up to it. You should have been doing this for me, sticking up for me and commending me instead of making me do it for myself. You know from personal experience that even if I'm a nobody, a nothing, I wasn't second-rate compared to those big-shot apostles you're so taken with.

12 All the signs that mark a true apostle were in evidence while I was with you through both good times and bad: signs of portent, signs of wonder, signs of power.

13 Did you get less of me or of God than any of the other churches? The only thing you got less of was less responsibility for my upkeep. Well, I'm sorry. Forgive me for depriving you.

14 Everything is in readiness now for this, my third visit to you. But don't worry about it; you won't have to put yourselves out. I'll be no more of a bother to you this time than on the other visits. I have no interest in what you have - only in you. Children shouldn't have to look out for their parents; parents look out for the children.

15 I'd be most happy to empty my pockets, even mortgage my life, for your good. So how does it happen that the more I love you, the less I'm loved?

16 And why is it that I keep coming across these whiffs of gossip about how my self-support was a front behind which I worked an elaborate scam? Where's the evidence?

17 Did I cheat or trick you through anyone I sent?

18 I asked Titus to visit, and sent some brothers along. Did they swindle you out of anything? And haven't we always been just as aboveboard, just as honest?

19 I hope you don't think that all along we've been making our defense before you, the jury. You're not the jury; God is the jury - God revealed in Christ - and we make our case before him. And we've gone to all the trouble of supporting ourselves so that we won't be in the way or get in the way of your growing up.

20 I do admit that I have fears that when I come you'll disappoint me and I'll disappoint you, and in frustration with each other everything will fall to pieces - quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumors, swelled heads, and general bedlam.

21 I don't look forward to a second humiliation by God among you, compounded by hot tears over that crowd that keeps sinning over and over in the same old ways, who refuse to turn away from the pigsty of evil, sexual disorder, and indecency in which they wallow.