2 Corinthians 5:14-16

The Ministry of Reconciliation

¹⁴ For the love of Christ _d controls us, because we have concluded this: that _e one has died for all, therefore all have died; ¹⁵ and he died for all, _f that those who live might no longer live for themselves but _g for him who for their sake died and was raised.

¹⁶ From now on, therefore, _h we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

1. Cross References
   Acts 18:5
   When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 5:15
   But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 6:11 - 12
   So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
   Romans 14:7
   For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 12:10
   For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
   
5. Cross References
   Galatians 2:6
   And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) - those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
   Philippians 3:7 - 8
   But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
   Colossians 2:11
   In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.
   1 Timothy 5:21
   In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.