2 Corinthians 5:13-21

New International Version

¹³ If we are “out of our mind,”^(A) as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. ¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.^{(B) 15} And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves^(C) but for him who died for them^(D) and was raised again.

¹⁶ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly^(E) point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,^(F) the new creation^(G) has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!^{(H) 18} All this is from God,^(I) who reconciled us to himself through Christ^(J) and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.^(K) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,^(L) as though God were making his appeal through us.^(M) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.^{(N) 21} God made him who had no sin^(O) to be sin^[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.^(P)