2 Corinthians 5:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For the love of Christ — To us, and our love to him. Constraineth us — Both to the one and the other; beareth us on with such a strong, steady, prevailing influence, as winds and tides exert when they waft the vessel to its destined harbour. While we thus judge, that if Christ died for all, then are all, even the best of men, naturally dead — In a state of spiritual death, and liable to death eternal. For had any man been otherwise, Christ had not needed to have died for him.