2 Corinthians 5:14-21 For Christ’s love impels us, having concluded this: if One died for all it follows that all died;

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ For Christ’s love impels us, having concluded this: if One died for all it follows that all died; ¹⁵ and He died for all so that those who now live should no longer live for themselves but for the One who died for all and was raised again. ¹⁶ So then, from now on we regard no one from a fleshly perspective—even if we have ‘known’ Christ in this way, we do so no longer — ¹⁷ so then, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old things have passed on; look, all has become new! ¹⁸ And that ‘all’ is from the God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and given us the ministry of the reconciliation, ¹⁹ namely that in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, including committing to us the message of this reconciliation. ²⁰ So then, we are Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God! ²¹ Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.