12. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.
16. I say again, (let no man think me to be foolish, otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little.)
17. That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
18. Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
19. For you gladly suffer the foolish; whereas yourselves are wise.