2 Corinthians 2:14

Paul breaks into thanksgiving that God always leads believers in Christ's triumphal procession, spreading the knowledge of Him everywhere. Ministry, even amid hardship, is a victory parade led by God.

Cross-references · 19

• Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Rom 8:37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
• 2 Cor 2:15–16For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
• Rom 6:17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
• 2 Cor 9:15Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
• Col 2:15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
• Ps 106:47Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
• Song 1:3Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• 2 Cor 1:11you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
• Rom 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
• Eph 5:20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
• Ps 148:14He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
• Rev 7:12saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
• Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
• Phil 4:18But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
• 1 Th 3:9For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
• 1 Cor 15:37That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

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