Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Therefore, it is no great thing if his helpers also disguise themselves as helpers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness,
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
So it is no great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their destiny
International Standard Version
So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doom will match their deeds!
American Standard Version
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
Amplified
So it is no great surprise if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, but their end will correspond with their deeds.
An Understandable Version
Therefore, it should not be surprising for Satan's ministers to disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their [final] end will be what they deserve for such actions.
Anderson New Testament
Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves so as to be like the ministers of righteousness; of such, the end shall be according to their works.
Bible in Basic English
So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.
Common New Testament
Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.
Daniel Mace New Testament
therefore it is not strange if his agents are so disguised as to appear like ministers of the gospel; but their end shall be answerable to their actions.
Darby Translation
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Godbey New Testament
Then it is no great wonder if his ministers are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose, end shall be according to their works.
Goodspeed New Testament
So it is nothing strange if his servants also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their doom will fit their actions.
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose ends shall be according to their works.
Julia Smith Translation
No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore [it is] not a great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers fashion themselves as though they were the ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their deeds.
Moffatt New Testament
So it is no surprise if his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their doom will answer to their deeds.
Montgomery New Testament
It is no great marvel, then, if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.
NET Bible
Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.
New Heart English Bible
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Noyes New Testament
It is no great thing, then, if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Sawyer New Testament
It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
The Emphasized Bible
No great thing, therefore, if, his ministers also, are transfiguring themselves as ministers of righteousness! - whose end, shall be according to their works.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
It is no wonder therefore if his ministers also be transformed as ministers of righteousness; whose end will be according to their works.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It is not surprising, therefore, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of Righteousness. But their end will be in accordance with their actions.
Webster
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Weymouth New Testament
It is therefore no great thing for his servants also to disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be in accordance with their actions.
Williams New Testament
So it is no surprise if his servants also masquerade as ministers for doing right, whose doom shall be in accordance with what they do.
World English Bible
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Worrell New Testament
It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end will be according to their works.
Worsley New Testament
It is therefore no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed into ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Youngs Literal Translation
no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
Themes
Christian ministers » Ministers of » Of righteousness
Condemnation » According to men's deserts
Disciples/apostles » Who is a false apostle
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 11:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Defends His Apostleship
14 And no marvel, for even Satan disguises himself into an agent of light. 15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his helpers also disguise themselves as helpers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. 16 I say again, let not any man think me to be foolish, but if otherwise--even if as foolish--accept me, so that I also may boast some a little.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory.
2 Kings 5:13
And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, would thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he says to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Isaiah 9:14-15
Therefore LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 23:14-15
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery, and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as So
Jeremiah 28:15-17
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. LORD has not sent thee, but thou make this people to trust in a lie.
Jeremiah 29:32
therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people, nor shall he behold the good that I will do to my people, says LORD, because he has spoken r
Ezekiel 13:10-15
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there is no peace, and when [a man] builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered [mortar],
Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
Matthew 7:15-16
But beware of FALSE prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are predatory wolves.
Acts 13:10
said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.
Galatians 1:8-9
But even if we, or an agent from heaven, should preach a good-news to you contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed.
Ephesians 6:12
Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the he
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
And then the lawless will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will neutralize at the appearance of his coming.
2 Peter 2:3
And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.
2 Peter 2:13-22
getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,
Jude 1:4
For certain men have sneaked in, those written about formerly for this condemnation, irreverent men, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:10-13
But these men indeed revile whatever they have not seen. But whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational beasts, in these things they are corrupted.
Revelation 9:11
Having a king over them, the agent of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.
Revelation 13:2
And the beast that I saw was similar to a leopard. And its feet were like a bear, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.
Revelation 13:14
And it leads my kind astray (those dwelling on the earth) because of the signs that were given it to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast that had the sword-wound and live
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war against him who sits upon the horse, and against his army.
Revelation 20:2-3
And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years.
Revelation 20:7-10
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed out of his prison.