Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Such people are false apostles, dishonest workers who are masquerading as apostles of the Messiah.
New American Standard Bible
For such men are
King James Version
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Holman Bible
For such people are false apostles,
A Conservative Version
For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.
American Standard Version
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
Amplified
For such men are counterfeit apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
An Understandable Version
For such men are false apostles; they are deceitful workers, who disguise themselves as [true] apostles of Christ.
Anderson New Testament
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, trans forming themselves into the apostles of Christ;
Bible in Basic English
For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
Common New Testament
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for these are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguised so as to pass for true apostles.
Darby Translation
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Godbey New Testament
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Goodspeed New Testament
Such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
John Wesley New Testament
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Julia Smith Translation
For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ.
King James 2000
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Modern King James verseion
For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For these false apostles are deceitful workers, and fashion themselves like unto the apostles of Christ.
Moffatt New Testament
'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen ??they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'
Montgomery New Testament
For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.
NET Bible
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
New Heart English Bible
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
Noyes New Testament
For such are false apostles, deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Sawyer New Testament
For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ.
The Emphasized Bible
For, such as these, are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For such are fake apostles, deceitful labourers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Men of this stamp are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as Apostles of Christ!
Webster
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Weymouth New Testament
For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
Williams New Testament
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
World English Bible
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
Worrell New Testament
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ;
Worsley New Testament
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transformed into apostles of Christ.
Youngs Literal Translation
for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
Themes
Deceit » False teachers » Are workers of
Deceit » False teachers are workers of
Topics
Interlinear
Toioutos
metaschematizo
References
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 11:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Defends His Apostleship
12 But I will go on doing what I'm doing in order to deny an opportunity to those people who want an opportunity to be recognized as our equals in the work they are boasting about. 13 Such people are false apostles, dishonest workers who are masquerading as apostles of the Messiah. 14 And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Cross References
Revelation 2:2
"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.
Galatians 1:7
not that another one really exists. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about the Messiah.
Galatians 2:4
However, false brothers were secretly brought in. They slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in the Messiah Jesus so that they might enslave us.
Philippians 3:2
Beware of the dogs! Beware of the evil workers! Beware of the mutilators!
Acts 20:30
Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.
2 Corinthians 11:15
So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doom will match their deeds!
Galatians 6:12
These people who want to impress others by their external appearance are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.
1 John 4:1
Dear friends, stop believing every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Matthew 25:24
"Then the one who had received one talent came forward and said, "Master, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you haven't planted and gathering where you haven't scattered any seed.
Acts 15:1
Then some men came down from Judea and started to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, you can't be saved."
Acts 15:24
Greetings. We have heard that some men, coming from us without instructions from us, have said things to trouble you and have unsettled you.
Romans 16:18
because such people are not serving the Messiah our Lord, but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
2 Corinthians 2:17
At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, we speak with sincerity in the Messiah's name, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.
Galatians 4:17
These people who have been instructing you are devoted to you, but not in a good way. They want you to avoid me so that you will be devoted to them.
Ephesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.
Philippians 1:15-16
Some are preaching the Messiah because of jealousy and dissension, while others do so because of their good will.
Colossians 2:4
I say this so that no one will mislead you with nice-sounding rhetoric.
Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,
1 Timothy 1:4-7
and occupying themselves with myths and endless genealogies. These things promote controversies rather than God's ongoing purpose, which involves faith.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
Now the Spirit says clearly that in the last times some people will abandon the faith by following deceitful spirits, the teachings of demons,
1 Timothy 6:3-5
If anyone teaches false doctrine and refuses to agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and godly teaching,
2 Timothy 2:17-19
and what they say will spread everywhere like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.
2 Timothy 3:5-9
They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires.
Titus 1:10-11
For there are many people who are rebellious, especially those who are converts from Judaism. They speak utter nonsense and deceive people.
2 Peter 2:1-3
Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there also will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
2 John 1:7-11
For many deceivers have gone out into the world. They refuse to acknowledge Jesus the Messiah as having become human. Any such person is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Jude 1:4
For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.
Revelation 2:9
"I know your suffering and your poverty though you are rich and the slander committed by those who claim to be Jews but are not. They are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and who teaches and leads my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 19:20
The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who had performed signs on its behalf. By these signs the false prophet had deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and worshipped its image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.