2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 5:21
“For Him who knew no sin He made to be sin on our account.” 'I say nothing of what has gone before, that you have outraged Him, Him that had done you no wrong, Him that had done you good, that He exacted not justice, that He is first to beseech, though first outraged; let none of these things be set down at present. Ought ye not in justice to be reconciled for this one thing only that He has done to you now?' And what has He done? “Him that knew no sin He made to be sin, for…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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