17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!
18 All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 For in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them, and he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20 Therefore, we are Christ's representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God!"
21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become God's righteousness in him.