2 Corinthians 2:15

World English Bible (2000)

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

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  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
  • Ezek 20:41 : 41 As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
  • Exod 29:25 : 25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
  • Isa 49:5-6 : 5 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength); 6 yes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth."
  • Exod 29:18 : 18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

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    16to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

    17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 2:14
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    14Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death works in us, but life in you.

  • 2 Cor 5:11-16
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    11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

    13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

    14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

    15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

    16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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    18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

  • Rom 14:8
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    8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

  • 1 Tim 2:3
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    3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

  • 1 Cor 15:18-19
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    18Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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

  • Eph 2:10
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    10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

  • Eph 2:5
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    5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

  • 2 Cor 1:9
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    9Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

  • 2 Cor 5:9
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    9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

  • 2 Cor 3:2
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    2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

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    30But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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    6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

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    4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

    6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

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    4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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    5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

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    8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 Cor 15:22
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    22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

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    9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    28and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

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    4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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    7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

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    18For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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    36Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

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    1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.

  • 2 Cor 1:22
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    22who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

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    12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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    11But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are."

  • 2 Cor 5:20
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    20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.