005:010 For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat
in our true characters, in order that each may then receive
an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what
he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.
005:011 Therefore, because we realize how greatly the Lord is to be feared,
we are endeavouring to win men over, and God recognizes
what our motives are, and I hope that you, in your hearts,
recognize them too.
005:012 We are not again commending ourselves to your favour,
but are furnishing you with a ground of boasting on our behalf,
so that you may have a reply ready for those with whom
superficial appearances are everything and sincerity of heart
counts for nothing.
005:013 For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory;
or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be
of service to you.
005:014 For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which
we have arrived being this--that One having died for all,
His death was their death,
005:015 and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer
live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.
005:016 Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man.
Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.
005:017 So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature:
the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things
has come into existence.
005:018 And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself
through Christ, and has appointed us to serve in the
ministry of reconciliation.
005:019 We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world