2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 13 Holy Bible
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
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For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
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For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
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For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
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for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - For such are false apostles. This, with 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 and Philippians 3:2, is one of St. Paul's most passionate outbursts of plain speaking. "Now at length" says Bengel, "he calls a spade a spade." They were "false apostles" (Revelation 2:2), because a true apostle delivers the message of another, while these cared only for self (Romans 16:18). Deceitful workers. Workmen who cheat their employers (2 Corinthians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 4:2). Transforming themselves. The verb is the same as in 1 Corinthians 4:6 and Philippians 3:21, and does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) For such are false apostles . . .--St. Paul's estimate of the character of his rivals is now given in unsparing language as the reason why he desires to deprive them of any claim which may give them an adventitious superiority to him. In the term "false apostles" we have the explanation of the "apostles extraordinary" of 2Corinthians 11:5. These "crafty workers" were carrying on a system of imposture, trying to assume the character of being, in a higher sense than he was, "Apostles of Christ." This again throws light both on the words "if any man trusts that he is Christ's" of 2Corinthians 10:7, and on the "I am of Christ" of 1Corinthians 1:12.
