[2:12] When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,
[2:13] my spirit was not at 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 triumphal procession, 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.