📖WEB · 2 Corinthians 11:14

What does 2 Corinthians 11:14 mean?

"And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light."

— 2 Corinthians 11:14 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

11

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

12

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

13

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

14

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

15

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

16

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

17

That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

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