15. For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.
16. For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable of such a task?
17. We are not like so many others, who handle God's message as if it were cheap merchandise; but because God has sent us, we speak with sincerity in his presence, as servants of Christ.