Satan has ministers who pretend to preach Christ's gospel; they make professions of piety and benevolence, enter into other men's labors, and strive to draw away Christians from ministers who have been instrumental in their conversion, and who preach to them the truth as it is in Jesus.
Verse 15. _WHOSE END SHALL BE ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS._] A bad _way_ leads to a bad _end_. The way of sin is the way to _hell_....
THEREFORE IT IS NO GREAT THING ... - It is not to be deemed surprising. You are not to wonder if people of the basest, blackest character put on the appearance of the greatest sanctity, and even becom...
2. ANSWERING HIS ADVERSARIES. HIS BOASTINGS. CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Danger Through False Teachers. (2 Corinthians 11:1)_ 2. Answering His Adversaries. (2 Corinthians 11:7) 3. His Boastings of Labors a...
A TENDER APPEAL TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. This appeal may sound like foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. _Indeed_ he is sure that they do. What has happened under Paul's guidance and inspiratio...
THE PERIL OF SEDUCTION (2 Corinthians 11:1-6)...
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you should be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing? I plundered other Churches and took pay from them in order to render se...
MINISTERS. Greek. _diakonos._ App-190. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _dikaiosune._ App-191. ACCORDING TO. Greek. _kata_, App-104....
_whose end shall be according to their works_ Cf. Proverbs 24:12; Matthew 16:27; Romans 2:6-11; 1 Corinthians 3:8;...
ΟΥ̓ ΜΈΓΑ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΕἸ. Comp. μέγα εἰ ἠμεῖς ὑμῶν τὰ σαρκικὰ θερίσομεν; (1 Corinthians 9:11): μέγα μοί ἐστιν εἴ ἔτι ὁ υἱός μου Ἰωσὴφ ζῇ (Genesis 45:28). ΕἸ ΚΑῚ ΟἹ ΔΙΆΚΟΝΟΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΜΕΤΑΣΧΗΜΑΤΊΖΟΝΤΑΙ ὩΣ ΔΙΆΚΟ...
THE APOSTLE’S GLORYING ABOUT WORKING GRATUITOUSLY With this passage 1 Corinthians 9, especially 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Corinthians 11:15;...
_FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 11:5-15:_ There was no way in which Paul was inferior to these false apostles. In fact he was not a whit behind the chiefest apostles. His speech...
ΔΙΆΚΟΝΟΙ ΑΎΤΟΎ (G1249) "его служители"; _obj. gen._ те, кто служит сатане, ΈΣΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть....
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 Unassertative (2 Corinthians 11:7-15) 7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 8I robbe...
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. NO GREAT THING - no difficult matter. RIGHTEOUS...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
_(B) 11:1-15. DEFENCE OF HIS GOSPEL AND OF HIS INDEPENDENCE_ St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much an Apostle as those whom they prefer. If he refuses monetary support...
PARAPHRASE. 'I assure you, by the truth of Christ within me, that I shall permit no one to interfere with the grounds of this boast in the district of Achaia. (11) And that, too, not because I despise...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 I will now write some words about myself, like those fools who recommend themselves. Be patient, and you will under...
IF HIS MINISTERS ALSO BE TRANSFORMED AS THE MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. — The words seem to point to one of the special characteristics of the Apostle’s rivals. They represented themselves as the prea...
CHAPTER 25 FOOLISH BOASTING. 2 Corinthians 11:7 (R.V) THE connection of 2 Corinthians 11:7 with what precedes is not at once clear. The Apostle has expressed his conviction that he is in nothing inf...
οὐ μέγα οὖν κ. τ. λ.: _it is no great thing therefore, if his ministers also, sc._, as well as himself, _fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness_ (see on 2 Corinthians 3:9); _whose end_, notw...
HE IS NOT INFERIOR TO HIS ADVERSARIES ALTHOUGH (_a_) HE IS NOT A TRAINED ORATOR (2 Corinthians 11:6), AND ALTHOUGH (_b_) HE DID NOT CLAIM MAINTENANCE FROM THE CHURCH (2 Corinthians 11:7). THIS WAS NOT...
CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS 2 Corinthians 11:10 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the false teachers who were injuring his converts with himself...
Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the opposition), the apostle has so little love for it that he commences w...
VERSE 15 All who would turn God's people from the truth are ministers of Satan. They deceive and will be punished for such deception (Revelation 21:8)....
(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well...
illing them to overflowing, though surely not to cease in the ages to come. "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,...
15._Whose end shall be. _He adds this for the consolation of the pious. For it is the statement of a courageous man, who despises the foolish judgments of men, and patiently waits for the day of the L...
In Chapter 11, jealous with regard to his beloved Corinthians with a godly jealousy, he carries yet further his arguments relating to false teachers. He asks the faithful in Corinth to bear with him a...
THEREFORE IT IS NO GREAT THING,.... It is no strange and wonderful thing; it may easily be given into; no man need to make any doubt of it, or hesitate concerning it, since the devil himself, who is a...
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. Ver. 15. _As the ministers of righteousness_] _Ca...
_For such are false apostles_ Whatever they may pretend to the contrary, being destitute of that divine mission which all the true apostles have; _deceitful workers_ Pretending to great disinterestedn...
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. It was no mere caprice of an erratic genius that cau...
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:...
If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who inspires him to write as he does. Paul considered it folly to speak...
5-15 It is far better to be plain in speech, yet walking openly and consistently with the gospel, than to be admired by thousands, and be lifted up in pride, so as to disgrace the gospel by evil temp...
It is no wonder if there be like servants, like masters: and as the devil, in order to the deceiving of souls, pretends to what he is not, viz. a friend to them; so those who seek their own profit, no...
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. [The apostle says that no one need stand aghast at s...
2 Corinthians 11:15 Therefore G3767 no G3756 thing G3173 if G1499 his G846 ministers G1249 also G1499 transform...
PAUL DEFENDS HIS APOSTLESHIP AND COMPARES HIMSELF WITH HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 11:1). An exact determination of who the visiting preachers were who constituted the new grave threat to Paul's mini...
‘For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light. It is no great thing therefor...
2 Corinthians 11:15. IT IS NO GREAT THING THEREFORE (nothing surprising) IF HIS MINISTERS ALSO FASHION THEMSELVES AS MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: WHOSE END SHALL BE ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS “for whatso...
AS MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (ως διακονο δικαιοσυνης). Jesus (John 10:1-21) terms these false shepherds thieves and robbers. It is a tragedy to see men in the livery of heaven serve the devil....
RIGHTEOUSNESS (_ See Scofield) - (1 John 3:7). _...
CONTENTS: Paul's godly jealousy for Christ's cause. Warning against false teachers. Paul's enforced boasting. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan, Eve, Abraham, Aretas, governor of Damascus. CONCLUS...
2 Corinthians 11:1. _Bear with me a little in my folly;_ for I must glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly for a man to applaud himself; and I doubt not but you will bea...
IF HIS SERVANTS. Paul says Satan's servants are trying to deceive the church! Then the false apostles are _Satan's servants!!!_ Compare 1 John 2:18-19 and notes....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 11:15 On judgment that will CORRESPOND TO one’s deeds, see 2 Corinthians 5:10;...
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. After declaring his love for the Corinthians, he proceeds (ver. 4) to defend his apostleship against the false apostles, pointing out that they had bestowed no...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 11:12. OCCASION.—General drift clear, particular application difficult, from our ignorance of facts. Hard to reconcile some of the presumed cavils and accusations; which...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING. EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (2 Corinthians 11:1). He is not afraid of comparisons ...
Let's turn to II Corinthians, chapter eleven. Paul's authority as an apostle has been challenged in the Corinthian church by certain Jewish teachers who had come in behind Paul, as they so often did,...
1 Corinthians 9:11; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Corinthians 3:9;...
Therefore it is no great, no strange, thing; whose end, notwithstanding all their disguises, shall be according to their works....