2 Corinthians 5:11–21

¹¹having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested.

¹²For not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have something in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart; ¹³for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind—it is to you, ¹⁴for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, ¹⁵and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

¹⁶So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more; ¹⁷so that if any one is in Christ—he is a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things. ¹⁸And the all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation, ¹⁹how that God was in Christ—a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation, ²⁰in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, ‘Be ye reconciled to God;’ ²¹for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

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