2 Corinthians 2:15

WEB

¹⁵For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:

KJV

¹⁵For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

BSB

¹⁵For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

FBV

¹⁵We are like a fragrance of Christ to God, rising up from among those who are being saved as well as those who are dying.

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Extra References

Ephesians 5:2

²Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

1 Corinthians 1:18

¹⁸For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

⁴¹I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

Philippians 4:18

¹⁸But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Genesis 8:21

²¹The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

¹⁰and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Exodus 29:18

¹⁸You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

³Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying, ⁴in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Exodus 29:25

²⁵You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Isaiah 49:5-6

⁵Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in the LORD’s eyes, and my God has become my strength. ⁶Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”