11 Therefore, since we know the Lord’s intimidation,* we try to convince people.

We are well known to God, and I hope in your consciences as well. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity of boasting on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.*

13 If we are ‘out of our senses’, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love impels us, having concluded this: if One died for all it follows that all died;* 15 and He died for all so that those who now live should no longer live for themselves but for the One who died for all* and was raised again.* Christ died begin with Romans 14:9, "that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living"; followed by this verse, that we should no longer live for ourselves, but for Him. Philippians 2:8-11 refers to the final victory. Hebrews 2:14 refers to destroying Satan; saving us from hell is a by-product. As it says in Romans 10:9, "if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord…’, you will be saved".

16 So then, from now on we regard no one from a fleshly perspective—even if we have ‘known’ Christ in this way, we do so no longer*— 17 so then, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old things have passed on; look, all has become new!* 18 And that ‘all’ is from the God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus* Christ and given us the ministry of the reconciliation,* reconciliation—no other reconciling compares with reconciling men to God. 19 namely that in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself,* not imputing their trespasses to them, including committing to us the message of this reconciliation.

20 So then, we are Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God! 21 Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.*