9. For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything.
10. Whomever you forgive anything, so do I. For indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for you in the presence of Christ,
11. so that we might not be taken advantage of by Satan, for we are not unaware of his purposes.
12. When I went to Troas for the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened for me in the Lord,
13. I had no relief in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
14. But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ and manifests through us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place.
15. For we are the aroma of Christ for God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,
16. to the latter an odor of death that leads to death, to the former an odor of life that leads to life. Who is qualified for this?
17. For we are not like the many who trade on the word of God; but as out of sincerity, indeed as from God and in the presence of God, we speak in Christ.