2 Corinthians 5:21

Controlled By The Love Of Christ

²⁰ We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Before God

For Us

God Made

Knew No Sin

On Our Behalf

Righteousness of God

Sin Offering

With God

Christ

No

Sin

1 Corinthians 1:30

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

Romans 1:17

For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being 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 is no sin.

Romans 3:21-26

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the Law and the Prophets;

Romans 4:25

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Romans 8:1-4

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, new things have come.

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 7:26

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Isaiah 45:24-25

Only in the LORD, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed.

Isaiah 53:4-6

Surely he has borne our sicknesses, and carried our pains; yet we considered him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:9-12

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Jeremiah 23:26

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

Jeremiah 33:16

In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name by which she shall be called: "The LORD our righteousness."

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to put an end to the transgression, and to make an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

Daniel 9:26

After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall come with a flood, and until the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

Zechariah 13:7

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says the LORD of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Luke 1:35

The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born will be called the Son of God.

Acts 3:14

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a man who was a murderer to be granted to you,

Romans 5:19

For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Romans 10:3-4

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

1 Peter 2:22-24

who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."

1 John 2:1-2

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.