2 Corinthians 5:16-2 Corinthians 6:2 - The Ministry Of Reconciliation
16 So from this moment on, I do not estimate anybody by the standard of outward appearances. Although I once did estimate Christ by this standard, I do not do so any longer. 17 For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come. 18 This has all originated with God, for He through Christ has reconciled me to Himself and has given me the ministry of reconciliation. 19 For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation. 20 So I am an envoy to represent Christ, because it is through me that God is making His appeal. As one representing Christ I beg you, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.
1 As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away. 2 For He says: "At a welcome time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you." Right now the time of welcome is here; right now it is the day of salvation.