⁹For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are ^jobedient in all things. ¹⁰Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For ²if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, ¹¹lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Triumph in Christ

¹²Furthermore, ^kwhen I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and ^la ³door was opened to me by the Lord, ¹³^mI had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.

¹⁴Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us ⁴diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. ¹⁵For we are to God the fragrance of Christ ⁿamong those who are being saved and ^oamong those who are perishing. ¹⁶^pTo the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And ^qwho is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷For we are not, as ⁵so many, ^rpeddling ⁶the word of God; but as ^sof sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

Read in Logos

2 Corinthians 2:14: But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Footnotes

2NU indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes
3Opportunity
4manifests
5M the rest
6adulterating for gain

Cross references

j 2 Cor. 7:15; 10:6
k Acts 16:8
l 1 Cor. 16:9
m 2 Cor. 7:6, 13; 8:6; Gal. 2:1, 3; 2 Tim. 4:10; Titus 1:4
n[1 Cor. 1:18]
o[2 Cor. 4:3]
p Luke 2:34; [John 9:39; 1 Pet. 2:7]
q[1 Cor. 15:10]
r 2 Pet. 2:3
s 1 Cor. 5:8; 2 Cor. 1:12; 1 Thess. 2:4; 1 Pet. 4:11