2Corinthians:5:11-6

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* So , because I know the fear of God , I "persuade men ." What I am is manifest to God , and I hope manifest also to your conscience . * I am not "commending myself to you again ," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf , so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals , and not in the heart . * For if I was "beside myself ," it was to God ; of if I am now "of sound mind ," it is for you . * For the love of Christ overmasters me ; because I thus judge that if One has died for all , then all have died ; * and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves , but for Him who died and rose again for them . * Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man - even if I have known Christ as a man , yet now I do so no longer . * So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ . The old life has passed away , behold , the new is come . * And all this is from God , who through Christ reconciled me to himself , and gave me the ministry of reconciliation ; * how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself , not reckoning to men their trespasses ; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation . * On Christs behalf , then , I come as ambassador . It is as though God was entreating you , through me , on Christs behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God . * Him who knew no sin , in our behalf he has made to be sin ; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God .

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