2 Corinthians 11:13

In 9 translations

BSB

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

KJV

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

WEB

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

ASV

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

LSV

for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

YLT

for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

For such false apostles are deceitfull workers, and transforme themselues into the Apostles of Christ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οἱ γὰρ τοιοῦτοι ψευδαπόστολοι, ἐργάται δόλιοι, μετασχηματιζόμενοι εἰς ἀποστόλους Χριστοῦ·

RP2018

Οἱ γὰρ τοιοῦτοι ψευδαπόστολοι, ἐργάται δόλιοι, μετασχηματιζόμενοι εἰς ἀποστόλους χριστοῦ.

TR-Boyd

Οἱ γὰρ τοιοῦτοι ψευδαπόστολοι, ἐργάται δόλιοι, μετασχηματιζόμενοι εἰς ἀποστόλους Χριστοῦ.

SCR1894

οι γαρ τοιουτοι ψευδαποστολοι εργαται δολιοι μετασχηματιζομενοι εις αποστολους χριστου

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• Revelation 2:2I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
• Galatians 1:7which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
• Philippians 3:2Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
• 1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Galatians 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
• Acts 20:30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
• Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown…
• Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
• Colossians 2:8See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
• 2 Corinthians 11:15It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.
• Colossians 2:4I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
• 1 John 2:18Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
• Revelation 2:9I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
• 1 Timothy 6:3–5If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies…
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus…
• 2 John 1:7–11For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have…

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