Bible verse for January 3

¹⁴ For Christ’s love holds us in its grip, since we have reached this judgment: one died for all, and so all died. ¹⁵ And he died for all so that those who are alive would stop living for themselves and would live instead for the one who died and was raised on their behalf. ¹⁶ So from now on we know no one by the standard of the flesh. Even if we once knew Christ by that standard, we no longer know him that way. ¹⁷ So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation. The old things are gone; look, new things have come into being. ¹⁸ Everything is from God. Through Christ he reconciled us to himself, and he gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not charging their trespasses to their account, and he has placed with us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ So we serve as ambassadors on Christ’s behalf, as if God were appealing through us. On Christ’s behalf we plead with you: be reconciled to God.

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