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2 Corinthians

Paul's Apostolic Authority and Ministry by the Spirit

2 Corinthians 2:12-3:6
12When I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord. 13I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus, but after saying farewell to them I went out to Macedonia. 14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ and through us reveals the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place. 15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16To the one group the aroma is from death to death, and to the other the aroma is from life to life; and who is sufficient for these things? 17For we are not like the many who peddle the word of God, but we speak as from sincerity, as from God, before God in Christ.
Chapter 3
1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again, or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all people, 3and you are shown to be a letter of Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the living Spirit of God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. 5It is not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence comes from God, 6who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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