^{17 Ref} so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

^{18 Ref} And the all things `are' of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

^{19 Ref} how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

^{20 Ref} in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'

^{21 Ref} for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.