8. We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
9. Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
10. For we must all be revealed before the judgement seat of Messiah; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
11. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
12. For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
13. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
14. For the love of Messiah constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
15. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
16. Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Messiah after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
17. Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
18. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Yeshua the Messiah, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;