2 Corinthians 5:11-17

11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to 1God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.

12[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

13For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to 2God; or are sober, [it is] for you.

14For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

15and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

16So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer.

17So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new: