I Corinthians 1 & 5

Now is the accepted time and behold, now is the day of salvation. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for becoming for me wisdom, righteousness, redemption and sanctification.

From now on, I do not regard myself according to the flesh. I concentrate on God, the spirit, and on being alive in the spirit and led by the very spirit of God. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead.

That is, God, my father, was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing my sins to me. Now he is giving that word of reconciliation to me to share with others. Therefore, I am an ambassador for Christ imploring others on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”

By God’s grace, I am in Christ and I am a new creature, old things have passed away, behold, all of me that matters now has become new. All things about me are now of God, who has reconciled me to himself through Jesus, the Messiah. And now, God, my father, has given me a ministry of reconciliation.