2 Corinthians 5:17,21 - Compare All Versions

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God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

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

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

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.

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

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.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;  the old has passed away, and see,  the new has  come!

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.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life emerges! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you.

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

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].

Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].

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.

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away – look, what is new has come!