2 Corinthians 5:14-21 ▼

14 for the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged thus: that if one died for all, then the whole died,

15 and He died for all, that those living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them, and was raised again.

16 So that we, from now on, have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him [thus] no longer;

17 so that if anyone [is] in Christ—[he is] a new creature; the old things passed away, behold, all things have become new.

18 And all things [are] of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of the 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 the reconciliation,

20 in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we implore, in behalf of Christ, “Be reconciled to God”;

21 He made Him having not known sin [to be] sin in our behalf, that we may become the righteousness of God in Him.