Passage Overview · Free · 2 Corinthians 5:21
God’s Reconciliation, Christ’s Ambassadors, and the Sinless One Made Sin
Reconciliation begins with God, who reconciles people to himself through Christ and entrusts a ministry and message of reconciliation to Christ’s ambassadors. God was in Christ reconciling the world, not counting trespasses against people. The climactic statement says that the sinless Christ was made sin for us so that in him we might become God’s righteousness; Isaiah 53 provides an important canonical background, while the exact force of 'made sin' should not be flattened into a claim that Christ became morally sinful.