"...whenever anyone turns to the Lord... (they) are being transformed into his likeness with ever - increasing glory..." (3:16, 18). "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation... All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ... We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us..." (5:17, 18, 20).
"...in every way we show ourselves to be servants of God..." (6:4+). Note 7:1.
"...Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord." (10:17).