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

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?

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

Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth.

Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void:

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.

For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified by reason of the glory that excelleth.

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is in glory.

But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).

For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake: that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which cause we speak also:

For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation that is from heaven.

For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.