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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.
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And 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.
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!
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So 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.
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
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.
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All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
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.
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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the 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!”
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We 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.
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.
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God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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