2 โครินธ์ 11:15
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.
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Study Note
Paul's assertion that Satan's ministers disguise themselves as 'ministers of righteousness' extends the warning of verse 14 about Satan transforming into an 'angel of light' — both drawing on Jewish traditions of satanic deception (Life of Adam and Eve 9; 2 Enoch 29:4). The ironic use of 'ministers of righteousness' (diakonoi dikaiosynēs) mirrors Paul's self-description as minister of the new covenant (2 Corinthians 3:6), warning the Corinthians that external resemblance to legitimate ministry is no guarantee of divine commission. The verse concludes with an unusually direct eschatological threat: their end will correspond to their works — a principle of divine justice in a letter otherwise focused on grace. The passage (2 Corinthians 11:12–15) is central to interpreting Paul's 'fool's speech' and his polemic against the 'super-apostles.'
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It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness--whose end shall be according to their works.
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.
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