2 Corinthians 5:11-17

11Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.

12We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart.

13For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

14For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.

15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

16From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!