13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)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 , 2 Cor. 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so . He might have spoken very positively. The apostleship, as an office, was equal in all the apostles; but the apostles, like other Christians,…
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