Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
So it is no surprise if his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their doom will answer to their deeds.
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.
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.
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
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 11:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Defends His Apostleship
14 No wonder they do, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 So it is no surprise if his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their doom will answer to their deeds. 16 I repeat, no one is to think me a fool; but even so, pray bear with me, fool as I am, that I may have my little boast as well as others!
Cross References
Philippians 3:19
Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!
2 Corinthians 3:9
If there was glory in the administration that condemned, then the administration that acquits abounds far more in glory
Matthew 7:15-16
Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.
Acts 13:10
and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we sowed you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly goods?
2 Corinthians 11:13
'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen ??they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'
2 Corinthians 11:23
Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;
Galatians 1:8-9
Now even though it were myself or some angel from heaven, whoever preaches a gospel that contradicts the gospel I preached to you, God's curse be on him!
Ephesians 6:12
For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival ??9 that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood,
2 Peter 2:3
in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.
2 Peter 2:13-22
done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!
Jude 1:4
for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:10-13
But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin.
Revelation 9:11
they had a king over them, the angel of the abyss ??his Hebrew name is Abaddon, but in Greek he is called Apollyon.
Revelation 13:2
The Beast I saw resembled a leopard, his feet were like a bear's, and his mouth like a lion's. To him the dragon gave his own power and his own throne and great authority.
Revelation 13:14
and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword,
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the Beast and the kings of earth and their troops mustered to wage war on him who was seated on the horse and on his troops.
Revelation 20:2-3
he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years,
Revelation 20:7-10
But when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison,