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2 Corinthians 5:17

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The Ministry of Reconciliation

11Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.13If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.14For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.21God made him who had no sin to be sinOr be a sin offering for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Chapter 6

1As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain.2For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”Isaiah 49:8
I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.

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bigred73 - (eBible Scholar) about 1 year ago.

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ! Those who are baptized in Him are a new creation. Your former self is gone. You are a new creation with a new set of thinking!

Amethyst - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

Justification is for the approval of man. Repentance is for the approval of God.

Eric35620 - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

Old hurts, habits and hang ups no longer have power here! This is a promise that we are new in the Lord!

Robert41010 - (eBible Evangelist) about 1 year ago.

He makes us sensitive to things, we never thought of before! Vs. 17-20 There are believers who reason that because they are not preachers or missionaries, they are not responsibile to take the gospel to unbelievers! However, these verses reveal the responsibility of every Christian!

TheBaptistCommentary - (eBible Enthusiast) about 1 year ago.

Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new kind of person, he is uncommon, his behavior has changed, he is established upon a firm foundation, his priorities have changed, he no longer lives for himself, but for Christ, the old man being subdued; observe, many things about him are different. See previous two passages to uderstand this passage correctly. Those who have converted are those who have entered into the kingdom of Heaven which was established here on earth. They have entered into Christ. But as Jesus said in John 3:3 & 5, they must first be born again before they can enter in, and then only if they also convert.

Jake38609 - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

New creation, evidence of salvation

Lisa - (eBible Scholar) about 1 year ago.

It is difficult on some level for all christians to give up the things we love to do, the music we love to listen to, and all the other things we love that are not of God, but we have to. In order to please the God and do his will, we must obey, "...all things are become new."

pastorkjl - (eBible Enthusiast) about 1 year ago.

If He can't be Lord of all, then He will not be Lord at all.

Bev - (eBible Mentor) about 1 year ago.

Praise the Lord, he is Lord of all that will accept his free gift.

WileECoyote - (eBible Scholar) 6 months ago.

when you become a Christian you become a new creature. ... when you become a Christian, you are born again, born of the Spirit, you should no longer want the things of the flesh, of this world you should want things of the Spirit. we have to walk with the Lord and grow in the Lord; when you become a Christian, your old habits and ways should be a thing of the past, and you should want to have new habits and ways about you. new friends; your old friends, unless they are Christians will more than likely drag you back down to their level with no change in your life. unless you can convert your old friends who are not Christians, you need to leave them alone and make you some new Christian friends. but you need to try to convert your old friends if there is any way possible for you to. you don't want to spend the rest of eternity knowing that they won't be in Heaven, too. ... etc. (that they will be in hell.)