11. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust we are also revealed in your consciences.
12. For we are not commending ourselves again to you. Instead, we give you occasion to boast on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
13. If we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
14. For the love of Christ constrains us, because we thus judge: that if one died for all, then all have died.
15. And He died for all, that those who live should not from now on live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
16. So from now on we do not regard anyone according to the flesh. Yes, though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet we do not regard Him as such from now on.
17. Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Look, all things have become new.
18. All this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation,
19. that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their sins against them, and has entrusted to us the message of reconciliation.
20. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you in Christ’s stead: Be reconciled to God.