2 Corinthians 11:13

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For these falce apostles are disceatefull workers and fassion them selves lyke vnto ye apostles of Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

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

Transliteration

For the such [are] pseudapostoloi, ergatai dolioi, metaschēmatizomenoi into apostolous Christou.

Grammar Details

• *pseudapostoloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - false apostles
• *ergatai*: nominative, masculine, plural - workers/laborers
• *dolioi*: nominative, masculine, plural - deceitful/crafty
• *metaschēmatizomenoi*: present middle/passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - transforming/disguising themselves
• *apostolous*: accusative, masculine, plural - apostles/emissaries
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ

Word Meanings

• *pseudapostoloi*: false apostles/counterfeit emissaries
• *ergatai*: workers/laborers
• *dolioi*: deceitful/crafty/treacherous
• *metaschēmatizomenoi*: transforming/disguising themselves/masquerading
• *apostolous*: apostles/emissaries/sent ones

Referenced Verses

• Rev 2:2 : 2 I knowe thy workes and thy labour and thy pacience and howe thou cannest not forbeare the which are evyll: and examinedst them which saye they are Apostles and are not: and hast founde them lyars
• Gal 1:7 : 7 which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ.
• Gal 2:4 : 4 and that because of incomers beynge falce brethren which came in amoge other to spye out oure libertie which we have in Christ Iesus that they might bringe vs into bondage.
• Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of dogges beware of evyll workers. Beware of dissencion.
• Acts 20:30 : 30 Moreover of youre awne selves shall men aryse speakinge perverse thinges to drawe disciples after the.
• Gal 6:12 : 12 As many as desyre with vtwarde apperauce to please carnally they constrayne you to be circumcised only be cause they wolde not suffre persecucion with the crosse of Christ.
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Ye beloved beleve not every sprete: but prove the spretes whether they are of God or no: for many falce Prophetes are gone out into the worlde.
• 2 Cor 11:15 : 15 Therfore it is no great thynge though his ministers fassion them selves as though they were the ministers of rightewesnes: whose ende shalbe acordynge to their dedes.
• 2 John 1:7-9 : 7 For many deceavers are entred in to the worlde which confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesshe. This is a deceaver and an Antichrist. 8 Loke on youre selves that we loose not that we have wrought: but that we maye have a full rewarde. 9 Whosoever transgresseth and bydeth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He yt endureth in the doctrine of Christ hath bothe the father and the sonne. 10 Yf ther come eny vnto you and bringe not this learninge him receave not to housse: nether bid him God spede. 11 For he that biddeth him God spede is parttaker of his evyll dedes.
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For ther are certayne craftely crept in of which it was write afore tyme vnto soche iudgemet. They are vngodly and turne the grace of oure God vnto wantannes and denye God the only Lorde and oure Lorde Iesus Christ.
• Eph 4:14 : 14 That we hence forth be no moare chyldren wauerynge and caryed with every wynde of doctryne by the wylynes of men and craftynes wherby they laye a wayte for vs to deceave vs.
• Phil 1:15-16 : 15 Some ther are which preache Christ of envie and stryfe and some of good wyll. 16 The one parte preacheth Christ of stryfe and not purely supposinge to adde more adversitie to my bondes.
• Rev 2:9 : 9 I knowe thy workes and tribulacion and poverte but thou art ryche: And I knowe the blaspemy of them whiche call them selves Iewes and are not: but are the congregacio of sathan.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 Notwitstondinge I have a feawe thynges agaynst the that thou sofferest that woman Iesabell which called her sylfe a prophetes to teache and to deceave my servauntes to make them commyt fornicacion and to eate meates offered vppe vnto ydoles.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beste was take and with him that falce prophett that wrought myracles before him with which he desceaved the that receaved ye beestes marke and them that worshipped his ymage. These both were cast into a pode of fyre burnyge with brymstone:
• Rom 16:18 : 18 For they yt are suche serve not ye Lorde Iesus Christ: but their awne bellyes and with swete preachinges and flatteringe wordes deceave the hertes of the innocetes.
• 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as many are which choppe and chaunge with the worde of God: but even oute of purenes and by the power of God and in the sight of God so speake we in Christ.
• 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but have cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie and walke not in craftines nether corrupte we the worde of God: but walke in open trueth and reporte oure selves to every mannes conscience in the sight of God.
• Gal 4:17 : 17 They are gelous over you amysse. Ye they intede to exclude you that ye shuld be feruet to them warde.
• Matt 25:24 : 24 Then he which had receaved ye one talent came and sayd: master I considered yt thou wast an harde man which repest where thou sowedst not and gadderest where thou strawedst no
• Acts 15:1 : 1 Then cam certayne from Iewrie and taught the brethren: excepte ye be circumcysed after the maner of Moses ye cannot be saved.
• Acts 15:24 : 24 For as moche as we have hearde yt certayne which departed fro vs have troubled you with wordes and combred youre myndes sayinge: Ye must be circumcised and kepe the lawe to whom we gave no soche comaundemet.
• Col 2:4 : 4 This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes.
• Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest eny ma come and spoyle you thorow philosophy and disceatfull vanitie thorow the tradicions of me and ordinaunces after the worlde and not after christ.
• 1 Tim 1:4-7 : 4 nether geve hede to fables and genealogies which are endlesse and brede doutes more then godly edyfyinge which is by fayth: 5 for ye ende of the comaundemet is love that cometh of a pure herte and of a good conscience and of fayth vnfayned: 6 fro the which thinges some have erred and have turned vnto vayne iangelinge 7 because they wolde be doctours the scripture and yet vnderstonde not what they speake nether wherof they affirme.
• 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 The sprete speaketh evydently that in the latter tymes some shall departe from the fayth and shall geve hede vnto spretes of erroure and dyvelysshe doctrine of them 2 which speake falce thorow ypocrisye and have their consciences marked with an hote yron 3 forbyddinge to mary and commaundinge to abstayne from meates which God hath created to be receaved with gevynge thankes of them which beleve and knowe ye trueth.
• 1 Tim 6:3-5 : 3 These thynges teache and exhorte. Yf eny man teache other wise and is not contet with ye wholsome wordes of oure LORde Iesu christ and with the doctryne of godlines 4 he is pufte vp and knoweth nothynge: but wasteth his braynes aboute questions and stryfe of wordes wherof sprynge envie stryfe raylinges evyll surmysinges 5 and vayne disputacions of men with corrupte myndes and destitute of the trueth which thynke that lucre is godlines. From soche seperate thy silfe.
• 2 Tim 2:17-19 : 17 and their wordes shall fret even as doeth a cancre: of whose nombre ys Hymeneos and Philetos 18 which as concernynge the trueth have erred sayinge that the resurreccion is past all redy and do destroye the fayth of divers persones. 19 But the sure grounde of god remayneth and hath this seale: the LORde knoweth them that are his and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ departe from iniquite.
• 2 Tim 3:5-9 : 5 havynge a similitude of godly lyvynge but have denyed the power ther of and soche abhorre. 6 Of this sorte are they which entre in to houses and brynge into bondage wymmen laden with synne which wemen are ledde of divers lustes 7 ever learnynge and never able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth. 8 As Iannes and Iambres withstode Moses even so do these resist the trueth men they are of corrupt myndes and leawde as concernynge the fayth: 9 but they shall prevayle no leger. For their madnes shalbe vttered vnto all men as theirs was.
• 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the tyme will come when they wyll not suffer wholsome doctryne: but after their awne lustes shall they (whose eares ytche) gett the an heepe of teachers 4 and shall turne their eares from ye trueth and shalbe geven vnto fables.
• Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For ther are many disobedient and talkers of vanite and disceavers of myndes namely they of the circumcisio 11 whose mouthes must be stopped which pervert whole houses teachinge thinges which they ought not because of filthy lucre.
• 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 Ther were falce prophetes amonge the people even as ther shalbe falce teachers amonge you: wich prevely shall brynge in damnable sectes even denyinge the Lorde that hath bought them and brynge vpon them selves swyft damnacion 2 and many shall folowe their damnable wayes by which the waye of trueth shalbe evyll spoken of 3 and thorow coveteousnes shall they with fayned wordes make marchandyse of you whose iudgement is not farre of and their dampnacion slepeth not.
• 1 John 2:18 : 18 Lytell children it is the last tyme and as ye have herde how that Antichrist shall come: even now are there many Antichristes come allredy. Wherby we knowe that it is the last tyme.