¹⁶to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.

Chapter 3

¹Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory from you? ²Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men, ³being manifested to be Christ’s epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but the Spirit of the living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of the heart. ⁴And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God: ⁵not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency is of God;

⁶who has also made us competent, as ministers of the new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

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