2 ¹² When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord; 2 ¹³ but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

2 ¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 2 ¹⁵ For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 2 ¹⁶ to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 2 ¹⁷ For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.