⁸ We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.^{(A) 9} So we make it our goal to please him,^(B) whether we are at home in the body or away from it. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us^(C) for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

The Ministry of Reconciliation

¹¹ Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord,^(D) we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.^(E)

¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.^(A)

²¹ God made him who had no sin^(A) to be sin^[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.^(B)