2 Corinthians 5:16-2 Corinthians 6:2 - The Ministry Of Reconciliation

¹⁶ Wherefore, we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now no longer do we know Him thus. ¹⁷ Wherefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, they have become new. ¹⁸ But all things are of God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having put in us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ On behalf of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors, as though God were beseeching through us, we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God ²¹ Him Who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf, that we may become God's righteousness in Him.

¹ And, working together with Him, we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain ² (for He saith, "At an acceptable time I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation did I succor Thee;" behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);