11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; and are made manifest to God: and, I trust, are made manifest also to your consciences.
12 However, we do not again commend ourselves to you, but only give you occasion of boasting concerning us, that you may have an answer to them who boast in appearance, not in heart.
13 For, whether we be beside ourselves, it is for God; or whether we be sober, it is for you.
14 For the love of Christ constrains us, having judged thus- that if one has died, certainly all have died;
15 and that he has died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who has died and rose again for them.
16 So that we, from this time forth, respect no man on account of the flesh: and even if we have esteemed Christ on account of the flesh, yet now we esteem him no more on that account.
17 For, if any one be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!
18 And all these things of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us to the ministry of the reconciliation-
19 namely, that God was, by Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting to them their trespasses, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 We, therefore, execute the office of ambassadors for Christ, as of God beseeching you by us; we pray you, in behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21 For he has made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us; that we might become the justified of God, by him.