Parallel Verses
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 not wonderful; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger of light. 15 No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works. 16 Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19
Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the service of condemnation glory, much more the service of justice abounds in glory.
2 Kings 5:13
And his servants will come near and speak to him, and say, My father, spake the prophet a great word to thee, wilt thou not do? and much more he said to thee, Wash and be cleansed,
Isaiah 9:14-15
And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesied in falsehood, and the priests will spread out with their hands; and my people loved it thus: and what will ye do to its last part
Jeremiah 23:14-15
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I saw a horrible thing, committing adultery and going in falsehood: and they strengthened the hands of those doing evil, they turned not back a man from his evil: they were to me all of them as Sodom, and those dwelling in her as Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 28:15-17
And Jeremiah the prophet will say to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah sent thee not; and thou didst cause this people to trust upon falsehood.
Jeremiah 29:32
For this, thus said Jehovah, Behold me reviewing upon Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and upon his seed: there shall not be to him a man in the midst of this people; and he shall not look upon the good I do to ray people, says Jehovah; for he spake turning away against Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:10-15
Because, and because they led my people astray, saying, Peace; and no peace; and he built a wall and they plastering it with plaster:
Ezekiel 13:22
Because ye afflicted the heart of the just one with falsehood, and I afflicted him not; and to strengthen the hands of the evil one not to turn back from his evil way, to preserve him alive.
Matthew 7:15-16
And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves.
Acts 13:10
O, full of deceit, and all dexterity, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, Wilt thou cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.
Galatians 1:8-9
But also if we, or a messenger from heaven, announce good news to you, more than what: we have announced to you, let him be anathema.
Ephesians 6:12
For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:
2 Peter 2:3
And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.
2 Peter 2:13-22
Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you
Jude 1:4
For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:10-13
And these truly what things they know not they defame: and what things naturally, as irrational animals, they know, in these they corrupt themselves.
Revelation 9:11
And they have a king over them, the angel of the abyss, the name to him in Hebrew Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
Revelation 13:2
And the wild beast which I saw was like a panther, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.
Revelation 13:14
And he deceives them dwelling upon earth by the signs which were given him to do before the wild beast; saying to them dwelling upon earth, to make an image to the wild beast, who has the blow of the sword, and he lived.
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the wild beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to war with him sitting upon the horse, and with his army.
Revelation 20:2-3
And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Revelation 20:7-10
And when the thousand years should be finished, Satan shall be loosed from his prison,