2 Corinthians 5

17 so then, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old things have passed on; look, all has become new!*This is neither immediate nor automatic; it is potential. No benefit of the shed blood of God’s Lamb is automatic; it must be appropriated. 18 And that ‘all’ is from the God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus*Perhaps 3% of the Greek manuscripts omit "Jesus", to be followed by NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc. Christ and given us the ministry of the reconciliation,*Yes, the reconciliation—no other reconciling compares with reconciling men to God. 19 namely that in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself,*Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! not imputing their trespasses to them, including committing to us the message of this reconciliation.