2 Corinthians 2:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ to the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ To the latter it is an aroma [wafted] from death to death [a fatal odor, the smell of doom]; to the former it is an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is qualified (fit and sufficient) for these things? [Who is able for such a ministry? We?]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ We smell like a contagious dead person to those who are dying, but we smell like the fountain of life to those who are being saved. Who is qualified for this kind of ministry?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ To the one, certainly, the fragrance is of death unto death. But to the other, the fragrance is of life unto life. And concerning these things, who is so suitable?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ 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?

2 Corinthians 2:16 Cross References

Numbers 15:3

and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:

Luke 2:34

and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the falling and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign which is spoken against;

John 9:39

And Jesus said, For judgement came I into this world, that they which see not may see; and that they which see may become blind.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.