002:012 Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door stood open before me,
002:013 yet, obtaining no relief for my spirit because I did not find our brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.
002:014 But to God be the thanks who in Christ ever heads our triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.
002:015 For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing;
002:016 to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death, and to the others an odor of life predictive of life. And for such service as this who is competent?
002:017 We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.
003:001 Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
003:002 Our letter of recommendation is yourselves—a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.
003:003 For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God—and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.
003:004 Such is the confidence which we have through Christ in the
presence of God;