The Death of Herod

Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him in a body, and after winning over Blastus, the king’s personal attendant, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

The Ministry of Reconciliation

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.

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;

that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.

If you open your mouth against your friend, do not worry, for reconciliation is possible. But as for reviling, arrogance, disclosure of secrets, or a treacherous blow— in these cases any friend will take to flight.

For a wound may be bandaged, and there is reconciliation after abuse, but whoever has betrayed secrets is without hope.