17 so that if anyone [is] in Christ—[he is] a new creature; the old things passed away, behold, all things have become new. 18 And all things [are] of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of the reconciliation, 19 how that God was in Christ—reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation, 20 in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we implore, in behalf of Christ, "Be reconciled to God"; 21 He made Him having not known sin [to be] sin in our behalf, that we may become the righteousness of God in Him.