2 Corinthians 5:14-18

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

and He died for all, so that those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose on their behalf.

Therefore from now on we recognize no one by the flesh; even though we have known Christ by the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,