2 Corinthians 5:11-21 - Controlled By The Love Of Christ

¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: but if not, we are manifest unto God, and I hope we are also manifested to your consciences: ¹² for we are not again recommending ourselves to you, but giving you an occasion of glorying on our account; that ye may have somewhat to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart. ¹³ For whether we be in extasies, it is to God: or if we be composed, it is for your benefit. ¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us, being fully persuaded of this, that if One died for all, then were all dead. ¹⁵ And He died for all, that those who live might no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

¹⁶ Wherefore we henceforth know no one according to the flesh: and if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we thus know Him no more. ¹⁷ And therefore if any one be in Christ, he is created anew: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. ¹⁸ But all these things are from God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and made us ministers of the reconciliation; ¹⁹ to declare, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore ambassadors for Christ, and as God exhorteth you by us, we intreat you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. ²¹ For He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be a sin-offering for us, that in Him we might be made righteous before God.