2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Thomson(i) 14 For the love of the Christ urgeth us on, judging this, that if one died for all then indeed were they all dying, 15 and that he died for all to the end that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and was raised up for them. 16 So that henceforth we know no one after the flesh. Nay though we indeed knew Christ after the flesh, yet we now know him so no more. 17 So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, behold! all those things are made new. 18 And all this is of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of this reconciliation. 19 So because God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to them their transgressions, and hath committed to us the word of this reconciliation, 20 we therefore as ambassadors for Christ; as if God were exhorting by us, we, in behalf of Christ, intreat, "Be reconciled to God; 21 for he hath made him who knew no sin, a sin offering for us, that by him we may be made the righteousness of God;