2 Corinthians 2:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

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  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
  • Ezek 20:41 : 41 I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction: 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
  • Exod 29:25 : 25 Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
  • Isa 49:5-6 : 5 And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength. 6 It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
  • Exod 29:18 : 18 And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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    16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

    17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

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    14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

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    2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10 In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

    11 For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

    12 So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

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    11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

    12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

    13 For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

    14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

    15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

    16 For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

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    18 For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

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    5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

  • Rom 14:8
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    8 As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

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    3 This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;

  • 1 Cor 15:18-19
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    18 And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

    19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.

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    10 For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

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    15 For we go through all things on account of you, because the greater the number to whom the grace is given, the greater is the praise to the glory of God.

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    5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

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    9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

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    9 For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

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    2 You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

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    30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

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    4 And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:

    5 Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

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    10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

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    4 But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

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    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

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    5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

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    8 But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

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    22 For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

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    10 Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.

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    4 Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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    7 But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

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    18 And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.

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    17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

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    22 And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.

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    12 So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

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    11 But we have faith that we will get salvation through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they.

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    20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.