¹² for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have [something] in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

¹³ for whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; whether we be of sound mind -- [it is] to you,

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

¹⁶ So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

¹⁷ so that if any one [is] in Christ -- [he is] a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

¹⁸ And the all things [are] of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

²⁰ in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'

²¹ for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

6 And working together also we call upon [you] that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

² for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now [is] a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

³ in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,