2 CORINTHIANS 5:
2 Corinthians 5:14 NKJV For the love of Christ compels us,
because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
2 Corinthians 5:18 HCSB Everything is from God,
who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and
gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 HCSB From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way.
Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.
[17] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away,
and look, new things have come. [18] Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself
through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: [19] That is, in Christ,
God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them,
and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. [20] Therefore,
we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us.
We plead on Christ's behalf, "Be reconciled to God."
[21] He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us,
so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Romans 5:8 NKJV But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
n that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21 NKJV Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf,
be reconciled to God. [21] For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us,
that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.