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2 Corinthians 5:20-21
New International Reader's Version
2 Corinthians 5:20-21
New International Reader's Version
20 So we are Christ’s official messengers. It is as if God were making his appeal through us. Here is what Christ wants us to beg you to do. Come back to God! 21 Christ didn’t have any sin. But God made him become sin for us. So we can be made right with God because of what Christ has done for us.
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2 Corinthians 5:20-21
New International Version
2 Corinthians 5:20-21
New International Version
20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,(A) as though God were making his appeal through us.(B) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.(C) 21 God made him who had no sin(D) to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(E)
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- 2 Corinthians 5:21 Or be a sin offering
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