2 Corinthians 5:21

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2 Corinthians 5:21

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.

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Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and look! all things have become new!

One will say of me, "Only in the LORD are victories and might.' All who raged against him will come to him and will be put to shame.

Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

How long will this go on? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy from the deceit that is in their hearts?

At that time Judah will be delivered and Jerusalem will dwell in safety. And this is the name people will call it, "The LORD is Our Righteousness."'

Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."

But now, apart from the Law, God's righteousness is revealed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets

For just as through one man's disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man's obedience many people will be made righteous.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.

For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness.

It is because of God that you are in union with the Messiah Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but one that comes through the faithfulness of the Messiah, the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith.

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He brought the people's offering, presenting a goat for a sin offering on behalf of the people. He slaughtered it and offered it as the first sin offering.

This is how the priest is to present the sin offering to make atonement for the person being cleansed of his impurity. After this, he is to slaughter the whole burnt offering.

On the eighth day, he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young doves, bring them to the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.

so that he'll be sure to be accepted, he is to offer a male without defect from the bulls, the lambs, and the goats.

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

and one goat to make atonement for you.