2 Corinthians 2:16
Good News Translation
For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable for such a task?

New Revised Standard Version
to the one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

New American Bible
to the latter an odor of death that leads to death, to the former an odor of life that leads to life. Who is qualified for this?

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

the savour of death.

Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted.

John 9:39 And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they who see not may see; and they who see may become blind.

Acts 13:45-47 And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming. . . .

Acts 20:26,27 Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the blood of all men. . . .

1 Peter 2:7,8 To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner: . . .

who.

2 Corinthians 3:5,6 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

Context
Triumph in Christ
15For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish. 16To 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? 17For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.…
Cross References
Numbers 15:3
And shall make an offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a victim, paying your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your solemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:

Luke 2:34
And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted.

John 9:39
And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they who see not may see; and they who see may become blind.

2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

1 Peter 2:7
To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

2 Corinthians 2:15
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