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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.  
18 Now all things are of God, awho has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,  
19 that is, that aGod was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not1 imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.  
20 Now then, we are aambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.  
21 For aHe made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become bthe righteousness of God in Him. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Corinthians 5:14

For—Accounting for his being "beside himself" with enthusiasm: the love of Christ towards us (in His death for us, the highest proof of it, Romans 5:6-8), producing in turn love in us to Him, and not mere "terror" (II Corinthians 5:11).

constraineth us—with irresistible power limits us to the one great object to the exclusion of other considerations. The Greek implies to compress forcibly the energies into one channel. Love is jealous of any rival object engrossing the soul (II Corinthians 11:1-3).

because we thus judge—literally, "(as) having judged thus"; implying a judgment formed at conversion, and ever since regarded as a settled truth.

that if—that is, that since. But the oldest manuscripts omit "if." "That one died for all (Greek, 'in behalf of all')." Thus the following clause will be, "Therefore all (literally, 'the all,' namely, for whom He 'died') died." His dying is just the same as if they all died; and in their so dying, they died to sin and self, that they might live to God their Redeemer, whose henceforth they are (Romans 6:2-11; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3; I Peter 4:1-3).




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