The Ministry of Reconciliation

¹¹ Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.^{(A) 12} We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart.^{(B) 13} For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.^{(C) 14} For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.^{(D) 15} And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the one who for their sake died and was raised.