2 Corinthians 5:18-20

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¹⁸ All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah^[a] and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, ¹⁹ for through the Messiah,^[b] God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us. ²⁰ Therefore, we are the Messiah’s^[c] representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah’s^[d] behalf: “Be reconciled to God!”