2 Corinthians 5:11
Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.

In another version, “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences”.

• The message is not, “Watch out for the terror of the Lord,” though there is a place for that message.
• The message is not, “If I don’t persuade men I might face the terror of the Lord, so I better get to work!”
• Instead, the message is, “I have been delivered from the terror of the Lord, and you can be delivered too. Come to Jesus!”
• In a way, the terror of the Lord was targeted on Jesus, so it would not be directed at all those who trust in who Jesus is and what He has done for them.