Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. New Living Translation For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. English Standard Version For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Berean Standard Bible God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. Berean Literal Bible He made the One not having known sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. King James Bible 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. New King James Version For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. New American Standard Bible He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. NASB 1995 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. NASB 1977 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Legacy Standard Bible He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Amplified Bible He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious lovingkindness]. Christian Standard Bible He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Holman Christian Standard Bible He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. American Standard Version Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For he who had not known sin made himself to become sin in your place, that we would become the righteousness of God in him. Contemporary English Version Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so Christ could make us acceptable to God. Douay-Rheims Bible Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God in him. English Revised Version Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. GOD'S WORD® Translation God had Christ, who was sinless, take our sin so that we might receive God's approval through him. Good News Translation Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God. International Standard Version God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us. Literal Standard Version He made Him having not known sin [to be] sin in our behalf, that we may become the righteousness of God in Him. Majority Standard Bible For God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. New American Bible For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. NET Bible God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God. New Revised Standard Version For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. New Heart English Bible For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Weymouth New Testament He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God. World English Bible For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Young's Literal Translation for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Ambassadors for Christ…20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. 21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. Cross References Numbers 7:64 one male goat for a sin offering; Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors. Jeremiah 33:16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness. Acts 3:14 You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. Romans 1:17 For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." Romans 3:21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. Romans 3:25 God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. Treasury of Scripture For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. he. Isaiah 53:4-6,9-12 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted… Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. who. Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; we. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Isaiah 45:24,25 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed… Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Jump to Previous Behalf God's Him Order Righteousness Sake SinJump to Next Behalf God's Him Order Righteousness Sake Sin2 Corinthians 5 1. That in his assured hope of immortal glory,9. and in expectation of it, he labors to keep a good conscience; 12. not that he may boast of himself, 14. but as one that, having received life from Christ, 17. endeavors to live as a new creature to Christ only, 18. and by his ministry of reconciliation, to reconcile others also in Christ to God. (21) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.--The "for" is omitted in many of the best MSS., but there is clearly a sequence of thought such as it expresses. The Greek order of the words is more emphatic: Him that knew no sin He made sin for us. The words are, in the first instance, an assertion of the absolute sinlessness of Christ. All other men had an experience of its power, gained by yielding to it. He alone gained this experience by resisting it, and yet suffering its effects. None could "convict Him of sin" (John 8:46). The "Prince of this world had nothing in Him" (John 14:30). (Comp. Hebrews 7:26; 1Peter 2:22.) And then there comes what we may call the paradox of redemption. He, God, made the sinless One to be "sin." The word cannot mean, as has been said sometimes, a "sin offering." That meaning is foreign to the New Testament, and it is questionable whether it is found in the Old, Leviticus 5:9 being the nearest approach to it. The train of thought is that God dealt with Christ, not as though He were a sinner, like other men, but as though He were sin itself, absolutely identified with it. So, in Galatians 3:13, he speaks of Christ as made "a curse for us," and in Romans 8:3 as "being made in the likeness of sinful flesh." We have here, it is obvious, the germ of a mysterious thought, out of which forensic theories of the atonement, of various types, might be and have been developed. It is characteristic of St. Paul that he does not so develop it. Christ identified with man's sin: mankind identified with Christ's righteousness--that is the truth, simple and yet unfathomable, in which he is content to rest. . . . Verse 21. - He hath made him to be sin for us; rather, he made; he speaks with definite reference to the cross. The expression is closely analogous to that in Galatians 3:13, where it is said that Christ has been "made a curse for us." He was, as St. Augustine says, "delictorum susceptor, non commissor." He knew no sin; nay, he was the very righteousness, holiness itself (Jeremiah 23:6), and yet, for our benefit, God made him to be "sin" for us, in that he "sent him in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin" (Romans 8:3). Many have understood the word "sin" in the sense of sin offering (Leviticus 5:9, LXX.); but that is a precarious application of the word, which is not justified by any other passage in the New Testament. We cannot, as Dean Plumptre says, get beyond the simple statement, which St. Paul is content to leave in its unexplicable mystery, "Christ identified with man's sin; man identified with Christ's righteousness." And thus, in Christ, God becomes Jehovah-Tsidkenu, "the Lord our Righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6). That we might be made the righteousness of God in him; rather, that we might become. The best comment on the pregnant significance of this verse is Romans 1:16, 17, which is developed and explained in so large a section of that great Epistle (see 3:22-25; 4:5-8; 5:19, etc.). In him In his blood is a means of propitiation by which the righteousness of God becomes the righteousness of man (1 Corinthians 1:30), so that man is justified. The truth which St. Paul thus develops and expresses is stated by St. Peter and St. John in a simpler and less theological form (1 Peter 2:22-24; 1 John 3:5).
Greek [God] madeἐποίησεν (epoiēsen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do. Him who τὸν (ton) Article - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. knew γνόντα (gnonta) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications. no μὴ (mē) Adverb Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether. sin ἁμαρτίαν (hamartian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin. [to be] sin ἁμαρτίαν (hamartian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin. on our behalf, ἡμῶν (hēmōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. so that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. Him αὐτῷ (autō) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. we ἡμεῖς (hēmeis) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. might become γενώμεθα (genōmetha) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Middle - 1st Person Plural Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude. [the] righteousness δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 1343: From dikaios; equity; specially justification. of God. Θεοῦ (Theou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. Links 2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT 2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV 2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB 2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV 2 Corinthians 5:21 BibleApps.com 2 Corinthians 5:21 Biblia Paralela 2 Corinthians 5:21 Chinese Bible 2 Corinthians 5:21 French Bible 2 Corinthians 5:21 Catholic Bible NT Letters: 2 Corinthians 5:21 For him who knew no sin he (2 Cor. 2C iiC 2Cor ii cor iicor) |
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