"Therefore {it is} no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall…" — 2 Corinthians 11:15

2 Corinthians 11:15 · KJV

“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.”

— 2 Corinthians 11:15

Verse 14

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Verse 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. {receive: or, suffer}

2 Corinthians 11 — Context

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

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

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.

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. {receive: or, suffer}

That which I speak, I speak {it} not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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 {be} glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

Revelation 9:11

And they had a king over them, {which is} the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue {is} Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath {his} name Apollyon. {Apollyon: that is to say, A destroyer}

2 Corinthians 11:23

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

Matthew 7:15-16

Beware of false prophets, which 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?

Jude 1:4

For there are certain men 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.

Jeremiah 23:14-15

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {an...: or, filthiness}