Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Themes
Christian ministers » Ministers of » Of righteousness
Condemnation » According to men's deserts
Disciples/apostles » Who is a false apostle
Topics
Interlinear
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 11:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Defends His Apostleship
14 and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; 15 no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works. 16 Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.
2 Corinthians 3:9
for if the ministration of the condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;
2 Kings 5:13
And his servants come nigh, and speak unto him, and say, 'My father, a great thing had the prophet spoken unto thee -- dost thou not do it? and surely, when he hath said unto thee, Wash, and be clean.'
Isaiah 9:14-15
And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?
Jeremiah 23:14-15
And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me -- all of them -- as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 28:15-17
And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto Hananiah the prophet, 'Hear, I pray thee, O Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, and thou hast caused this people to trust on falsehood.
Jeremiah 29:32
Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to My people -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- for apostasy he hath spoken against Jehovah.'
Ezekiel 13:10-15
Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk.
Ezekiel 13:22
Because of paining the heart of the righteous with falsehood, And I have not pained it, And strengthening the hands of the wicked, So as not to turn back from his evil way, To keep him alive,
Matthew 7:15-16
'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.
Acts 13:10
said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?
2 Corinthians 11:13
for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
2 Corinthians 11:23
ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;
Galatians 1:8-9
but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!
Ephesians 6:12
because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,
2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
2 Peter 2:13-22
about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,
Jude 1:4
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,
Jude 1:10-13
and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;
Revelation 9:11
and they have over them a king -- the messenger of the abyss -- a name is to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.
Revelation 13:2
and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.
Revelation 13:14
and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with his army;
Revelation 20:2-3
and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,
Revelation 20:7-10
And when the thousand years may be finished, the Adversary shall be loosed out of his prison,