Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

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 will be according to their works.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

it is no
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

μέγας 
megas 
Usage: 167

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

his

Usage: 0

διάκονος 
Diakonos 
Usage: 24


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

μετασχηματίζω 
metaschematizo 
Usage: 5

as
ὡς 
Hos 
as, when, how, as it were, about,
Usage: 417

the ministers
διάκονος 
Diakonos 
Usage: 24

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

end
τέλος 
Telos 
Usage: 28

shall be
ἔσομαι 
Esomai 
shall be, will be, be, shall have, shall come to pass, shall, not tr,
Usage: 83

κατά 
Kata 
according to, after, against, in, by, daily , as,
Usage: 428


Usage: 0

References

Context Readings

Paul Defends His Apostleship

14 And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 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. 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.


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.)

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministration of condemnation was glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed 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, wouldst thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

Isaiah 9:14-15

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, 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

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 28:15-17

Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 29:32

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

Ezekiel 13:10-15

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar:

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Matthew 7:15-16

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Acts 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?

1 Corinthians 9:11

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Galatians 1:8-9

But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach any other gospel to you than that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

Ephesians 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-12

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will destroy with the brightness of his coming:

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

2 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;

Jude 1:4

For certain men have 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.

Jude 1:10-13

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Revelation 9:11

And they had a king over them, who is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon, but in the Greek language he hath his name Apollyon.

Revelation 13:2

And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

Revelation 13:14

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and lived.

Revelation 19:19-21

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, assembled to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

Revelation 20:2-3

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.

Revelation 20:7-10

And when the thousand years have expired, Satan shall be loosed from his prison,

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