2 Corinthians 5:17-21
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17 Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah,[a] he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!
18 All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah[b] and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 for through the Messiah,[c] God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us. 20 Therefore, we are the Messiah’s[d] representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah’s[e] behalf: “Be reconciled to God!” 21 God[f] made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us.[g]
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- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ
- 2 Corinthians 5:18 Or Christ
- 2 Corinthians 5:19 Or Christ
- 2 Corinthians 5:20 Or Christ’s
- 2 Corinthians 5:20 Or Christ’s
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 Lit. He
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 Lit. that we might become God’s righteousness in him
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