Verse 14
2 Corinthians 11:14
World English Bible
14
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
Original Language Text
greek
καὶ οὐ ⸀θαῦμα, αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ Σατανᾶς μετασχηματίζεται εἰς ἄγγελον φωτός·
English Translation
And no marvel, for even Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
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Chapter 11 Context
1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
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2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might pres...
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3
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be...
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4
For if he who comes preaches another Yashua (Jesus), whom we did not preach, or if you receive a dif...
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5
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
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But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have b...
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7
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God (E...
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8
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
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9
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when the...
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10
As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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11
Why? Because I don’t love you? God (Elohim) knows.
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12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that i...
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13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
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14
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
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It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose e...
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16
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boas...
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17
That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence o...
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18
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
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19
For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
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20
For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive,...
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21
I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I s...
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22
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I....
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23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly...
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24
Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
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25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been...
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26
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils...
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27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and n...
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28
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the...
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29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
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30
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
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31
The God (Elohim) and Father of the Lord Yashua (Jesus) Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows...
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32
In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
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33
Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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