The Fragrance of the Gospel

¹Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wickedor stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,²but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.³That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in seasonand whose leaf does not wither – whatever they do prospers.

⁴Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

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¹²Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, ¹³I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.¹⁴But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. ¹⁵For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. ¹⁶To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? ¹⁷Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.

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