¹² When I came to Troas to proclaim the good news of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord, ¹³ but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said farewell to them and went on to Macedonia.

¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him. ¹⁵ For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: ¹⁶ to the one group a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is qualified for these things? ¹⁷ For we are not peddlers of God’s word like so many, but as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.