For we are a sweet fragrance of Christ ascending to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
I have received everything in full and have an abundance. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are an aroma of a sweet fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
and with every kind of wicked deception among those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.