The Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians:
“For the love of Christ constrains (compels) us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
Therefore, for now on, we regard no one according to the flesh (the wordy point of view). Even though have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer (we no longer regard Christ in this way).
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Now all things are (a gift) of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us a ministry of reconciliation (God brought us back to Himself through Christ), that is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them (no longer counting people’s sins against them), and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us (God is making His appeal through us); we implore you on Christ’s behalf to be reconciled to God (Come back to God). For He made Him (Jesus Christ) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (made right with God through Christ).
(2 Corinthians 5: 14-21, NKJV, with addition from parentheses from the NLT)