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2 Corinthians 11

2 Cor. 11:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
I fear
phobeo (Greek #5399)
to frighten, i.e. (passively) to be alarmed; by analogy, to be in awe of, i.e. revere
KJV usage: be (+ sore) afraid, fear (exceedingly), reverence.
Pronounce: fob-eh'-o
Origin: from 5401
, lest by any means
mepos (Greek #3381)
lest somehow
KJV usage: lest (by any means, by some means, haply, perhaps).
Pronounce: may'-pos
Origin: μή πως (may tis) from 3361 and 4458
, as
hos (Greek #5613)
which how, i.e. in that manner (very variously used, as follows)
KJV usage: about, after (that), (according) as (it had been, it were), as soon (as), even as (like), for, how (greatly), like (as, unto), since, so (that), that, to wit, unto, when(-soever), while, X with all speed.
Pronounce: hoce
Origin: probably adverb of comparative from 3739
the serpent
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
ophis (Greek #3789)
a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan
KJV usage: serpent.
Pronounce: of'-is
Origin: probably from 3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision)
beguiled
exapatao (Greek #1818)
to seduce wholly
KJV usage: beguile, deceive.
Pronounce: ex-ap-at-ah'-o
Origin: from 1537 and 538
Eve
Eua (Greek #2096)
Eua (or Eva, i.e. Chavvah), the first woman
KJV usage: Eve.
Pronounce: yoo'-ah
Origin: of Hebrew origin (02332)
through
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
his
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
subtilty
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
panourgia (Greek #3834)
adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry
KJV usage: (cunning) craftiness, subtilty.
Pronounce: pan-oorg-ee'-ah
Origin: from 3835
, so
houto (Greek #3779)
in this way (referring to what precedes or follows)
KJV usage: after that, after (in) this manner, as, even (so), for all that, like(-wise), no more, on this fashion(-wise), so (in like manner), thus, what.
Pronounce: hoo'-to
Origin: οὕτως (hoo'-toce) adverb from 3778
your
humon (Greek #5216)
of (from or concerning) you
KJV usage: ye, you, your (own, -selves).
Pronounce: hoo-mone'
Origin: genitive case of 5210
minds
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
noema (Greek #3540)
a perception, i.e. purpose, or (by implication) the intellect, disposition, itself
KJV usage: device, mind, thought.
Pronounce: no'-ay-mah
Origin: from 3539
should be corrupted
phtheiro (Greek #5351)
properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave)
KJV usage: corrupt (self), defile, destroy.
Pronounce: fthi'-ro
Origin: probably strengthened from φθίω (to pine or waste)
from
apo (Greek #575)
"off," i.e. away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative)
KJV usage: (X here-)after, ago, at, because of, before, by (the space of), for(-th), from, in, (out) of, off, (up-)on(-ce), since, with. In composition (as a prefix) it usually denotes separation, departure, cessation, completion, reversal, etc.
Pronounce: apo'
Origin: a primary particle
the simplicity
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
haplotes (Greek #572)
singleness, i.e. (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self-seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal)
KJV usage: bountifulness, liberal(-ity), simplicity, singleness.
Pronounce: hap-lot'-ace
Origin: from 573
that is
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
in
eis (Greek #1519)
to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases
KJV usage: (abundant-)ly, against, among, as, at, (back-)ward, before, by, concerning, + continual, + far more exceeding, for (intent, purpose), fore, + forth, in (among, at, unto, -so much that, -to), to the intent that, + of one mind, + never, of, (up-)on, + perish, + set at one again, (so) that, therefore(-unto), throughout, til, to (be, the end, -ward), (here-)until(-to), ...ward, (where-)fore, with. Often used in composition with the same general import, but only with verbs (etc.) expressing motion (literally or figuratively).
Pronounce: ice
Origin: a primary preposition
Christ
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
Christos (Greek #5547)
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
KJV usage: Christ.
Pronounce: khris-tos'
Origin: from 5548
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I fear.
2 Cor. 11:29• 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not? (2 Cor. 11:29)
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2 Cor. 12:20‑21• 20For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions;
 21lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (2 Cor. 12:20‑21)
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Psa. 119:53•  (Psa. 119:53)
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Gal. 1:6• 6I wonder that thus quickly ye are being removed from him that called you in Christ's grace to a different gospel (Gal. 1:6)
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Gal. 3:1• 1O senseless Galatians! who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed among you as crucified? (Gal. 3:1)
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Gal. 4:11• 11I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have laboured in vain as to you. (Gal. 4:11)
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Phil. 3:18‑19• 18For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ,
 19whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the belly, and they glory in their shame, who mind the things of earth. (Phil. 3:18‑19)
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Gen. 3:4,13•  (Gen. 3:4,13)
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John 8:44• 44Ye are of your father, the devil, and ye desire to practice the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him: whenever he speaketh the lie, he speaketh out of his own things, because he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
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1 Tim. 2:14• 14and Adam was not deceived, but the woman quite deceived is become in transgression; (1 Tim. 2:14)
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Rev. 12:9• 9And the great dragon was cast {i}out{/i}, the ancient serpent, that is called {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, that deceiveth the whole habitable {i}world{/i}: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast with him. (Rev. 12:9)
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Rev. 20:2• 2And he laid hold on the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (Rev. 20:2)
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2 Cor. 11:13‑15• 13For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ:
 14and no wonder, for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light:
 15[it is] no great thing then if his servants also transform themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. (2 Cor. 11:13‑15)
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2 Cor. 2:17• 17For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ. (2 Cor. 2:17)
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2 Cor. 4:2• 2but refused the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor guilefully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men in the sight of God. (2 Cor. 4:2)
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Matt. 24:24• 24for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Matt. 24:24)
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Acts 20:30‑31• 30and from among your own selves shall men arise speaking things perverted to draw the disciples after them.
 31Wherefore watch, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not admonishing each one night and day with tears. (Acts 20:30‑31)
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Gal. 1:6• 6I wonder that thus quickly ye are being removed from him that called you in Christ's grace to a different gospel (Gal. 1:6)
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Gal. 2:4• 4and [this] on account of the false brethren brought in stealthily, who came in stealthily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring into bondage, (Gal. 2:4)
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Gal. 3:1• 1O senseless Galatians! who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed among you as crucified? (Gal. 3:1)
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Eph. 4:14• 14that we may no longer be babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of doctrine in the sleight of men, in craftiness for the scheming of error, (Eph. 4:14)
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Eph. 6:24• 24grace with all that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. (Eph. 6:24)
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Col. 2:4,8,18• 4And this I say that no one may beguile you by persuasive speech.
 8See that there shall be no one that leadeth you a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.
 18Let no one defraud you of your prize, doing his will in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, (Col. 2:4,8,18)
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2 Thess. 2:3‑11• 3Let none deceive you in any way; because [it will not be] except the falling away shall have come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 4he that opposeth and exalteth himself exceedingly against every one called god, or object of veneration; so that he sitteth down in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
 5Remember ye not that, being yet with you, I told you these things?
 6And now ye know that which restraineth, that he may be revealed in his own season.
 7For the mystery of lawlessness already worketh: only [there is] one that restraineth now until he be out of the way,
 8and then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall destroy with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;
 9whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
 10and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
 11And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error that they should believe falsehood, (2 Thess. 2:3‑11)
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1 Tim. 1:3• 3Even as when setting out for Macedonia I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, that thou mightest charge some not to be strange teachers, (1 Tim. 1:3)
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1 Tim. 4:1‑4• 1But the Spirit saith expressly that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
 2by hypocrisy of legendmongers, branded in their own conscience,
 3forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those faithful and fully acquainted with the truth.
 4Because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be rejected when received with thanksgiving, (1 Tim. 4:1‑4)
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2 Tim. 3:1‑9,13• 1But this know, that in [the] last days grievous times shall be there.
 2For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 3without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good,
 4traitors, headstrong, puffed up, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers,
 5having a form of piety, but having denied the power thereof; and from these turn away.
 6For of these are they that enter into houses and lead captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
 7always learning and never able to come unto knowledge of truth.
 8And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
 9But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be very manifest to all, as theirs also became.
 13But wicked men and impostors shall advance for the worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Tim. 3:1‑9,13)
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2 Tim. 4:3‑4• 3For the time will be when they will not endure sound teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;
 4and from the truth they will turn away their ear, and will be turned aside unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:3‑4)
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Titus 1:10• 10For there are many unruly ones, vain speakers and deceivers, specially those of [the] circumcision, (Titus 1:10)
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Heb. 13:9• 9Be not carried away with divers and strange doctrines; for [it is] good that the heart be confirmed with grace; not with meats, in which those that walked were not profited. (Heb. 13:9)
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2 Peter 2:1‑14• 1But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also false teachers among you, such as shall bring in by-the-bye sects of perdition, denying even the Sovereign Master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift perdition;
 2and many shall follow their dissolutenesses; because of whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
 3And in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition slumbereth not.
 4For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to lowest hell and gave them up to chains of gloom reserved for judgment,
 5and spared not an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones;
 6and reducing to ashes [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he condemned [them] with overthrow, having set an example to those that should live ungodlily,
 7and rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the behaviour of those abandoned in licentiousness;
 8for the righteous [man] dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing was tormenting a righteous soul day after day with lawless works,
 9[the] Lord knoweth to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep unjust [men] for judgment-day to be punished;
 10and especially those that walk after flesh in lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not speaking railingly of dignities,
 11when angels, being greater in might and power, bring not against them before [the] Lord a railing charge.
 12But these, as irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, speaking evil in what things they are ignorant, shall also perish in their corruption,
 13receiving as they shall wages of unrighteousness, accounting [their] ephemeral luxury pleasure; spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their love feasts, feasting with you;
 14having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse; (2 Peter 2:1‑14)
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2 Peter 3:3,17• 3knowing this first, that in the last of the days mockers shall come with mockery walking according to their own lusts,
 17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing beforehand, be on your guard lest, led away along with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness. (2 Peter 3:3,17)
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1 John 2:18• 18Little children, it is [the] last hour, and even as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now many antichrists have come, whence we know that it is [the] last hour. (1 John 2:18)
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1 John 4:1• 1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)
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Jude 4• 4For certain men have crept in unawares. They, who before of old were ordained to this sentence, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ. (Jude 4)
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Rev. 12:9• 9And the great dragon was cast {i}out{/i}, the ancient serpent, that is called {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, that deceiveth the whole habitable {i}world{/i}: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast with him. (Rev. 12:9)
the simplicity.
2 Cor. 1:12• 12For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience that in holiness f and sincerity before God, not in carnal wisdom but in God's grace, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you. (2 Cor. 1:12)
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Rom. 12:8• 8or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; he that bestoweth, with simplicity; he that presideth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. (Rom. 12:8)
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Rom. 16:18‑19• 18For such as they serve not our Lord [Jesus] Christ, but their own belly, and by kind speaking and fairness of speech deceive the hearts of the harmless.
 19For your obedience hath reached unto all. Over you then I rejoice, but I wish you to be wise in regard to good and simple in regard to evil. (Rom. 16:18‑19)
• Scripture recorded the simple, sober, solemn truth, which all heathenism attests in a traditional form more or less molded into fable. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 11:1-15” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicitye as to the Christ.

JND Translation Notes

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"Simplicity" here refers, not to a personal trait, but to the doctrine as to Christ; what a faithful heart retained in simplicity, as taught in the truth. To say "which [is] in the Christ," is too much as if it were in Christ himself, not the doctrine.

W. Kelly Translation

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But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his crafta, your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicityb that is toward Christ.

WK Translation Notes

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"So" is added by the T. R.
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"And the purity" is added by some.