³ But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

¹⁴ But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

¹¹ Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.

⁹ Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

¹⁰ And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

¹¹ And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

⁵ Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

¹⁵ 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 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?

¹² Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

¹⁶ In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.