2 Corinthians 5:11-17

11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

12We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.

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

14For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

15and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.