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11 Knowing, therefore, athe terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.  

Be Reconciled to God

12 For awe do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity bto boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.  
13 For aif we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.  
14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that aif One died for all, then all died;  
15 and He died for all, athat those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.  
16 aTherefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, byet now we know Him thus no longer.  
17 Therefore, if anyone ais in Christ, he is ba new creation; cold things have passed away; behold, all things have become dnew.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Corinthians 5:13

be—rather as Greek, "have been." The contrast is between the single act implied by the past tense, "If we have ever been beside ourselves," and the habitual state implied by the present, "Or whether we be sober," that is, of sound mind. beside ourselves—The accusation brought by Festus against him (Acts 26:24). The holy enthusiasm with which he spake of what God effected by His apostolic ministry, seemed to many to be boasting madness.

sober—humbling myself before you, and not using my apostolic power and privileges.

to God . . . for your cause—The glorifying of his office was not for his own, but for God's glory. The abasing of himself was in adaptation to their infirmity, to gain them to Christ (I Corinthians 9:22).




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