12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
13For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.
14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
15and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
16Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more.
17Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
18But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;