11. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.
12. For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but we are giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have such with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.
13. For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or are sober, it is for you.
14. For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
15. and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.
16. So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.
17. So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:
18. and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation: