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2 Corinthians 2:16 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? "
2 Corinthians 2:16
Verse in Context
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Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth ➔ us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
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2 Corinthians 2:1
"But I determined this with myself, that I would ➔ not come again to you in heaviness."
2 Corinthians 2:2
"For if I make ➔ you sorry, who is he then that maketh ➔ me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?"
2 Corinthians 2:3
"And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all."
2 Corinthians 2:4
"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you."
2 Corinthians 2:5
"But if any have caused grief, he hath ➔ not grieved me, but in part: that ➔ I may ➔ not overcharge you all."
2 Corinthians 2:6
"Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many."
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