2 Corinthians 5:21 — Community Reflections

2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 1

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God — the substitutionary statement is stark: the sinless one (hos hamartian ouk egnō) became sin (hamartia). This effects exchange: Christ takes human sin; humans receive divine righteousness (dikaiosynē). This is the heart of the gospel.

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Thomas MuellerNote1mo ago

Righteousness in Christ

Paul makes the exchange: 'God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.' The great swap—his sin for our righteousness. I'm an accountant. I de...