2 Corinthians 5:11-17

11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we are trying to persuade people, but what we are is known to God—and I hope it is known to your consciences as well.

12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity for boasting about us, so that you may have something to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart.

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

14For the love of Messiah compels us, since we have concluded that One died for all; as a result all died.

15And He died for all so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

16So from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Messiah according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know Him this way.

17Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.