MennoSota
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Happy New Year!
2 Corinthians 5:14-21
[14]Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
[15]He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
[16]So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
[17]This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
[18]And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
[19]For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
[20]So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
[21]For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:14-21
[14]Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
[15]He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
[16]So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
[17]This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
[18]And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
[19]For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
[20]So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
[21]For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.