Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 And no wonder. Satan, their master, can disguise himself as an angel of light. 15 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. 16 To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things.
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness.
Matthew 7:15-16
"Beware of the false teachers--men who come to you in sheep's fleeces, but beneath that disguise they are ravenous wolves.
Acts 13:10
said, "You who are full of every kind of craftiness and unscrupulous cunning--you son of the Devil and foe to all that is right--will you never cease to misrepresent the straight paths of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:11
If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
2 Corinthians 11:13
For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)
Galatians 1:8-9
But if even we or an angel from Heaven should bring you a Good News different from that which we have already brought you, let him be accursed.
Ephesians 6:12
For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
and then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will sweep away with the tempest of His anger, and utterly overwhelm by the awful splendour of His Coming.
2 Peter 2:3
Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.
2 Peter 2:13-22
being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you.
Jude 1:4
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.
Jude 1:10-13
Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing, and in things which, like the brutes, they understand instinctively--in all these they corrupt themselves.
Revelation 9:11
The locusts had a king over them--the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is 'Abaddon,' while in the Greek he is called 'Apollyon.'
Revelation 13:2
The Wild Beast which I saw resembled a leopard, and had feet like the feet of a bear, and his mouth was like the mouth of a lion; and it was to the Dragon that he owed his power and his throne and his wide dominion.
Revelation 13:14
And his power of leading astray the inhabitants of the earth is due to the marvels which he has been permitted to work in the presence of the Wild Beast. And he told the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the Wild Beast who had received the sword-stroke and yet had recovered.
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the Wild Beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, all assembled to make war, once for all, against the Rider upon the horse and against His army. And the Wild Beast was captured, and with him the false Prophet
Revelation 20:2-3
He laid hold of the Dragon--the ancient serpent--who is the Devil and the Adversary, and bound him for a thousand years, and hurled him into the bottomless pit.
Revelation 20:7-10
But when the thousand years are at an end, the Adversary will be released from his imprisonment,