RIGHTEOUSNESS

2 Corinthians 5:21.(KJV)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.

(Way)Jesus knew not sin; yet God made him to be the world's sin for our sakes, that we, whose sin he had thus assumed, might become, by our union with him, the very righteousness of God.

(Good News)Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.

(Blackwelder). . .in our behalf God identified him with everything in the whole realm of sin in order that by trusting him we might become (recipients of) God's kind of righteousness.

(Williams). . .so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

(Conybeare). . .changed into the righteousness of God in Christ.

(Wood)Think of it: Christ the sinless was made the personification of sin for us, in order that in union with Him we might become the very righteousness of God.

(Translator's NT)God made him to be sin itself on our behalf. . .

(Jerusalem)For our sake God made the sinless one into sin. . .

(New English). . .God made him one with the sinfulness of men. . .

Confession:

Jesus knew no sin, but God made Him to be my sin.

He was made sin itself, the personification of sin.

He was made one with my sinfulness.

My sinful self was crucified with Him.

What was in my spirit He took into His spirit so that what is in His spirit might be in mine.

He was made righteous again in spirit. (1 Timothy 3:16)

God made Him to be that righteousness unto men. (1 Corinthians 1:30)

I am now in union with Christ in spirit.

The righteousness that is in Him is now in me--the very righteousness of God.

I have God's kind of righteousness in my spirit.

My new self was re-created in God's righteousness. (Ephesians 4:24)

I HAVE COME INTO RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD!