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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There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,

Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.