2 Corinthians 11:14
Good News Translation
Well, no wonder! Even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light!

New Revised Standard Version
And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

Contemporary English Version
And it is no wonder. Even Satan tries to make himself look like an angel of light.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.

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2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:11 That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.

Genesis 3:1-5 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? . . .

Matthew 4:1-10 Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. . . .

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Context
Paul and the False Apostles
13For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light. 15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.

Galatians 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.

Colossians 1:12
Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

Colossians 1:13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

2 Corinthians 11:13
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