All things are from God, the one having reconciled us unto himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

as that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their transgressions to them, even having placed in us the word of reconciliation.

not only so, but having been elected by the churches our traveling companion with this philanthropy, administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and your promptitude:

Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If any has trusted to himself that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this in reference to himself, that as he belongs to Christ, so do we also.

for he that commends himself is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.

And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.