2 Corinthians 2:14-3:3

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

I Praise God That He Is Always Spreading The Aroma of Christ Through Us Everywhere

¹⁴ But thanks be to God, the One always leading us in triumph^[a] in Christ, and making the aroma of ^[b] the knowledge of Him known through us in every place. ¹⁵ Because we are the fragrance of Christ for^[c] God among the ones being saved, and among the ones perishing— ¹⁶ to the ones an aroma from death to^[d] death, but to the others an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷ For we are not like the many peddling^[e] the word of God. But as from purity, but as from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.

You Yourselves Are Proof To Everyone That God Is Working Through Us

3 Are we^[f] beginning to commend ourselves again? Or we do not have-need of letters of recommendation^[g] to you or from you, like some, do we? ² You are our letter— it having been inscribed in our hearts, it being known and being read by all people, ³ you being made-known^[h] that you are a letter from^[i] Christ having been served by us, having been inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tablets made-of-stone but in tablets^[j] which are hearts made-of-flesh.