2 Corinthians 5:16-2 Corinthians 6:2 - The Ministry Of Reconciliation
16 Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man??ven if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer. 17 So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come. 18 And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation; 19 how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation. 20 On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God. 21 Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For he said: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! behold, now is the day of salvation!