2Cor.5.11

If I acted crazy, I did it for God; if I acted overly serious, I did it for you.

2Cor.5.11

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.

2Cor.5.11

Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

2Cor.5.11

It is because we know this solemn fear of the Lord that we work so hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too.

2Cor.5.12

Christ's love has moved me to such extremes. His love has the first and last word in everything we do. Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat.

2Cor.5.12

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.

2Cor.5.12

For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

2Cor.5.12

Are we trying to pat ourselves on the back again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart before God.

2Cor.5.13

He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.

2Cor.5.13

If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

2Cor.5.13

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

2Cor.5.13

If it seems that we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit.

2Cor.5.14

Because of this decision we don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don't look at him that way anymore.

2Cor.5.14

For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

2Cor.5.14

For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;

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Whatever we do, it is because Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for everyone, we also believe that we have all died to the old life we used to live.

2Cor.5.15

Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it!

2Cor.5.15

And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

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and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

2Cor.5.15

He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live to please themselves. Instead, they will live to please Christ, who died and was raised for them.

2Cor.5.16

All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other.

2Cor.5.16

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

2Cor.5.16

Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.

2Cor.5.16

So we have stopped evaluating others by what the world thinks about them. Once I mistakenly thought of Christ that way, as though he were merely a human being. How differently I think about him now!

2Cor.5.17

God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing.

2Cor.5.17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

2Cor.5.17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

2Cor.5.17

What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun!

2Cor.5.18

We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you.

2Cor.5.18

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

2Cor.5.18

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

2Cor.5.18

All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him.

2Cor.5.19

How? you say. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

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that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

2Cor.5.19

For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.

2Cor.5.20

We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

2Cor.5.20

We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

2Cor.5.20

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.

2Cor.5.20

We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, "Be reconciled to God!"

2Cor.5.21

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2Cor.5.21

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2Cor.5.21

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2Cor.5.21

For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

2Cor.6.1

Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don't squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us.

2Cor.6.1

As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain.

2Cor.6.1

We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2Cor.6.1

As God's partners, we beg you not to reject this marvelous message of God's great kindness.

2Cor.6.2

God reminds us, I heard your call in the nick of time; The day you needed me, I was there to help. Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped.

2Cor.6.2

For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.

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For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

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For God says, "At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you." Indeed, God is ready to help you right now. Today is the day of salvation.