2 Corinthians 2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.

² 1 That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.

³ 2 And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

⁴ 3 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

⁵ 4 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

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

⁷ 6 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?

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

⁹ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?

¹⁰ You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:

¹¹ Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

¹² And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.

¹³ Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ 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:

¹⁶ How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?

¹⁷ For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.