2 Corinthians 2:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

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  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,
  • Ezek 20:41 : 41 With sweet fragrance I do accept you, In My bringing you out from the peoples, And I have assembled you from the lands In which ye have been scattered, And I have been sanctified in you Before the eyes of the nations.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,
  • 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed, 4 in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man `is' evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;
  • Exod 29:25 : 25 and thou hast taken them out of their hand, and hast made perfume on the altar beside the burnt-offering, for sweet fragrance before Jehovah; a fire-offering it `is' to Jehovah.
  • Isa 49:5-6 : 5 And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.) 6 And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'
  • Exod 29:18 : 18 and thou hast made perfume with the whole ram on the altar. It `is' a burnt-offering to Jehovah, a sweet fragrance; a fire-offering it `is' to Jehovah.

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    16to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

    17for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

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    14and to God `are' thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

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    2and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

    11for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

    12so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

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    11having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

    13for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,

    14for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

    15and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

    16So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

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    18for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,

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    5for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

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    8for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

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    3for this `is' right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

  • 1 Cor 15:18-19
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    18then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

    19if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

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    10for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

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    15for the all things `are' because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

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    5even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

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    9but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

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    9Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

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    2our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

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    4and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

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    10we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

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    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

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    2and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

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    5And He who did work us to this self-same thing `is' God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

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    8and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

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    22for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

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    9as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

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    10who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;

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    28and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

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    4who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

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    7And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

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    18for he who in these things is serving the Christ, `is' acceptable to God and approved of men.

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    17And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, `is' then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

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    36(according as it hath been written -- `For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

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    22who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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

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    10and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

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    11but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.'

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    20in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'