2 Corinthians 5:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. ¹⁸ All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also. ¹⁹ Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ.^[a] God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.