2 Corinthians 5:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Common English Bible

²¹ God caused the one who didn’t know sin to be sin for our sake so that through him we could become the righteousness of God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God in him.

2 Corinthians 5:21 Cross References

Jeremiah 23:26

How long? Will the hearts of the prophets ever turn back—those who prophesy lies and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart?

Jeremiah 33:16

In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this is the name by which it will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.”

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Daniel 9:26

After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Numbers 21:9

So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole, and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

Numbers 7:45

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:64

one male goat for a purification offering;

Luke 1:35

The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God.

Acts 3:14

But you rejected the holy and righteous one and asked to have a murderer given to you,

Romans 1:17

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith, as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 4:25

who was handed over for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Romans 5:19

For just as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

1 Corinthians 1:30

In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being!

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 7:26

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

1 John 3:5

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.