2 Corinthians 2:14-3:6

New American Standard Bible

^14 (A)But thanks be to God, who always ^(B)leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us reveals the ^(C)fragrance of the ^(D)knowledge of Him in every place. ¹⁵ For we are a ^(E)fragrance of Christ to God among ^(F)those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: ^16 (G)to the one an ^[a]aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is ^(H)adequate for these things? ¹⁷ For we are not like the many, ^[b](I)peddling the word of God, but ^(J)as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ ^(K)in the sight of God.

Ministers of a New Covenant

3 Are we beginning to ^(L)commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, ^(M)letters of commendation to you or from you? ^2 (N)You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all people, ³ revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, ^[c](O)delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^(P)the living God, not on ^(Q)tablets of stone but on ^(R)tablets of ^[d](S)human hearts.

⁴ Such is the ^(T)confidence we have toward God through Christ. ⁵ Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but ^(U)our adequacy is from God, ⁶ who also made us adequate as ^(V)servants of a ^(W)new covenant, not of ^(X)the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but ^(Y)the Spirit gives life.