2 Corinthians 5:16-2 Corinthians 6:2 - The Ministry Of Reconciliation
16 Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus. 17 There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come. 18 It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation. 19 For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation. 20 So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were ??be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ. 21 For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain. 2 (He saith, I have heard you in the time of favour, and helped you on the day of salvation. Well, here is the time of favour, here is the day of salvation.)