2 Corinthians 2:14-3:3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

¹⁵ For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish.

¹⁶ To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?

¹⁷ For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?

² You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:

³ Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.