And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had spoken to you a great matter, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
2 Corinthians 11:15 - The Scriptures 2009 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works! Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. [But] their end will correspond with their deeds. American Standard Version (1901) It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. Common English Bible It is no great surprise then that his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers present themselves as if they were ministers of justice, for their end shall be according to their works. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works. |
And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had spoken to you a great matter, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
therefore thus said יהוה, “See, I am bringing punishment upon Shemayah the Neḥelamite and his seed: he shall have no one to dwell among this people, nor is he to see the good that I am about to do for My people,” declares יהוה, “because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה.” ’ ”
The prophets have prophesied falsely, and the priests rule by their own hand, and My people have loved it so. And what are you going to do at the end of it?
“Because with falsehood you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad. And you have strengthened the hands of the wrong, so that he does not turn from his evil way, to keep him alive.
and said, “O son of the devil, filled with all deceit and all recklessness, you enemy of all righteousness, shall you not cease perverting the straight ways of יהוה?
And why not say, “Let us do evil so that the good might come”? – as we are wrongly accused and as some claim that we say. Their judgment is in the right.
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material goods from you?
For such are false emissaries, deceptive workers, masquerading as emissaries of Messiah.
Are they servants of Messiah? – I speak as beside myself – I am more, in labours much more, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.
For if the administering of condemnation had esteem, the administering of righteousness exceeds much more in esteem.
Because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness in the heavenlies.
Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.
and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.
For certain men have slipped in, whose judgment was written about long ago, wicked ones perverting the favour of our Elohim for indecency, and denying the only Master יהוה and our Master יהושע Messiah.
And he leads astray those dwelling on the earth because of those signs which he was given to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword, yet lived.
And the beast I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.
And they have over them a sovereign, the messenger of the pit of the deep, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apolluon.