005:008 We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. 005:009 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. 005:010 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 005:011 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences. 005:012 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart. 005:013 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. 005:014 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. 005:015 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again. 005:016 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. 005:017 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. 005:018 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; 005:019 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. 005:020 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 005:021 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 006:001 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, 006:002 for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you."{Isaiah 49:8} Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. 006:003 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed, 006:004 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, 006:005 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; 006:006 in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love, 006:007 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,