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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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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.
After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions,
I. His equality with the other apostles - that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles,…
Cambridge Bible
whose end shall be according to their works Cf. Pro 24:12; Mat 16:27; Rom 2:6-11; 1Co 3:8; Php 3:19; 2Ti 4:14; Rev 20:12, &c.
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