^{15 Ref} For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

^{16 Ref} To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

^{17 Ref} For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.