2 Corinthians 5:21
King James Version
28 Jul 2026
“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. ”
ἁμαρτία
God treated Jesus as the embodiment of everything humanity gets wrong — every failure, every deviation from what we were made to be — so that we could be restored to the fullness we were always meant to reflect.
δικαιοσύνη
Righteousness
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δικαιοσύνη
Through our union with Christ, we are given a right standing before God that we could never achieve on our own — his perfect record becomes ours.
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θεός
God
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θεός
The righteousness we receive isn't a human standard or a religious achievement — it belongs to the one who created everything and defines what right actually is.
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γινώσκω
having known
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γινώσκω
Jesus never experienced sin personally or relationally — he had zero firsthand acquaintance with it, the way you know something by living through it.
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ποιέω
He made,
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ποιέω
God deliberately acted, intentionally arranging the exchange where Christ took on our sin so we could receive his righteousness — this was no accident, but a purposeful transaction he set in motion.
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ἵνα
so that
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ἵνα
God didn't accidentally accomplish our righteousness — it was the whole point, the intended outcome he was aiming for when Christ took on our sin.
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μέ
we ourselves
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μέ
In this verse, the word quietly insists that Jesus had absolutely zero personal acquaintance with sin — not even a trace of it — making him the only one qualified to carry ours.
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γίνομαι
may become
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γίνομαι
Through this exchange, we are actually transformed into something we were not before — carriers of God's own righteousness, not just people who have it credited to our account.
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