| Quien halla esposa halla la felicidad: muestras de su favor le ha dado el Señor. | He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord. |
| ¿No han leído —replicó Jesús— que en el principio el Creador “los hizo hombre y mujer”, y dijo: “Por eso dejará el hombre a su padre y a su madre, y se unirá a su esposa, y los dos llegarán a ser un solo cuerpo”? Así que ya no son dos, sino uno solo. Por tanto, lo que Dios ha unido, que no lo separe el hombre. | “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” |
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| Esposas, sométanse a sus esposos, como conviene en el Señor. Esposos, amen a sus esposas y no sean duros con ellas. | Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. |
| Tengan todos en alta estima el matrimonio y la fidelidad conyugal, porque Dios juzgará a los adúlteros y a todos los que cometen inmoralidades sexuales. | Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. |
| Mujer ejemplar, ¿dónde se hallará? ¡Es más valiosa que las piedras preciosas! | A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. |
| Esposos, amen a sus esposas, así como Cristo amó a la iglesia y se entregó por ella para hacerla santa. Él la purificó, lavándola con agua mediante la palabra. | Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word. |
| El corazón del hombre traza su rumbo, pero sus pasos los dirige el Señor. | In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. |
| Pero, en vista de tanta inmoralidad, cada hombre debe tener su propia esposa, y cada mujer su propio esposo. | But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. |
| Luego Dios el Señor dijo: «No es bueno que el hombre esté solo. Voy a hacerle una ayuda adecuada». | The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” |
| No envíes a la guerra a ningún hombre recién casado, ni le impongas ningún otro deber. Tendrá libre todo un año para atender su casa y hacer feliz a la mujer que tomó por esposa. | If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married. |
| De la costilla que le había quitado al hombre, Dios el Señor hizo una mujer y se la presentó al hombre, el cual exclamó: «Esta sí es hueso de mis huesos y carne de mi carne. Se llamará “mujer” porque del hombre fue sacada». Por eso el hombre deja a su padre y a su madre, y se une a su mujer, y los dos se funden en un solo ser. | Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. |
| Esposas, sométanse a sus propios esposos como al Señor. Porque el esposo es cabeza de su esposa, así como Cristo es cabeza y Salvador de la iglesia, la cual es su cuerpo. | Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. |
| Toda tú eres bella, amada mía; no hay en ti defecto alguno. | You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. |
| El hombre debe cumplir su deber conyugal con su esposa, e igualmente la mujer con su esposo. La mujer ya no tiene derecho sobre su propio cuerpo, sino su esposo. Tampoco el hombre tiene derecho sobre su propio cuerpo, sino su esposa. | The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. |
| De igual manera, ustedes esposos, sean comprensivos en su vida conyugal, tratando cada uno a su esposa con respeto, ya que como mujer es más delicada, y ambos son herederos del grato don de la vida. Así nada estorbará las oraciones de ustedes. | Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. |
| Por eso dejará el hombre a su padre y a su madre, y se unirá a su esposa, y los dos llegarán a ser un solo cuerpo. | For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. |
| Así mismo el esposo debe amar a su esposa como a su propio cuerpo. El que ama a su esposa se ama a sí mismo. | In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. |
| No se nieguen el uno al otro, a no ser de común acuerdo, y solo por un tiempo, para dedicarse a la oración. No tarden en volver a unirse nuevamente; de lo contrario, pueden caer en tentación de Satanás, por falta de dominio propio. | Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. |
| En todo caso, cada uno de ustedes ame también a su esposa como a sí mismo, y que la esposa respete a su esposo. | However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. |
| Ustedes han oído que se dijo: “No cometas adulterio”. Pero yo les digo que cualquiera que mira a una mujer y la codicia ya ha cometido adulterio con ella en el corazón. | You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. |
| Me deleito mucho en el Señor; me regocijo en mi Dios. Porque él me vistió con ropas de salvación y me cubrió con el manto de la justicia. Soy semejante a un novio que luce su diadema, o una novia adornada con sus joyas. | I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. |
