2 Corinthians 11:15
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
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Compare
- BSB
- It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.
- KJV
- Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
- WEB
- It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
- ASV
- It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
- DARBY
- It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
- BLB
- Therefore [it is] not great if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
- ÅB
- derfor er det ikke noe stort om og hans tjenere skaper seg om til rettferdighets tjenere; men deres ende skal være etter deres gjerninger.
- OTB
- Derfor er det ikke overraskende om hans tjenere også utgir seg for å være rettferdighetens tjenere, hvis ende vil være i henhold til deres gjerninger.
- B1930
- derfor er det ikke noget stort om og hans tjenere skaper sig om til rettferdighets tjenere; men deres ende skal være efter deres gjerninger.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Read in contextRevelation 9:11
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:14–15
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Read in contextJude 1:4
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read in contextActs 13:10
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Read in context2 Peter 2:13–22
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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