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 to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation. 005:020 On Christ's behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were, making entreaty through our lips: we, on Christ's behalf, beseech men to be reconciled to God. 005:021 He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God. 006:001 And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose. 006:002 For He says, "At a time of welcome I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have succoured you." Now is the time of loving welcome! Now is the day of salvation! 006:003 We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit. 006:004 On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval-- by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;