12. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an opportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boast of external appearance rather than of the heart.
13. For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are rational, it is for you.
14. For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died.
15. He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.