For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing –

And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!

I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”