And all these [things] [are] from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

And not only [this], but he was also chosen by the churches [as] our traveling companion together with this gift that is being administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself and [to show] our readiness [to help].

You are looking at things according to appearance. If anyone is convinced he himself is Christ's, he should consider this concerning himself again: that just as Christ himself [is], so also [are] we.

For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but [the one] whom the Lord commends.

And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light.