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11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. And we have been made manifest to God, and I hope to have been made manifest in your? consciences also. 12 We do not commend ourselves to you? again, but are giving to you? occasion of boasting on behalf of us, so that you? may have something toward those boasting in appearance and not in heart. 13 For if we were beside ourselves, it is to God; and if we are sound-minded, it is for you?. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, having judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died. 15 And He died for all, that those living no longer should live to themselves, but to the One having died for them and having been raised again. 16 Therefore, from now, we know no one according to the flesh. Even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things passed away; behold, the new things have come into being! 18 Now all things are of God, the One having reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and having given 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 into us the word of reconciliation. 20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God is appealing through us. We implore on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. 21 He made the One not having known sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:11-21, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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