Hi gallenwalsh.
Two different translations of the same Scripture passages hopefully will add to what Kat has shown.2Co 5:14-21 (CEV)14 We are ruled by Christ's love for us. We are certain that if one person died for everyone else, then all of us have died.
15 And Christ did die for all of us. He died so we would no longer live for ourselves, but for the one who died and was raised to life for us.
16 We are careful not to judge people by what they seem to be, though we once judged Christ in that way.
17 Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new.
18 God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between himself and others.
19 What we mean is that God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. And he has given us the work of sharing his message about peace.
20 We were sent to speak for Christ, and God is begging you to listen to our message. We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God.
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Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so that Christ could make us acceptable to God. 2Co 5:14-21 (CLV)
14 For the love of Christ is constraining us, judging this, that, if One died for the sake of all, consequently all died."
15 And He died for the sake of all that those who are living should by no means still be living to themselves, but to the One dying and being roused for their sakes."
16 So that we, from now on, are acquainted with no one according to flesh. Yet even if we have known Christ according to flesh, nevertheless now we know Him so no longer."
17 So that, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: the primitive passed by. Lo! there has come new!"
18 Yet all is of God, Who conciliates us to Himself through Christ, and is giving us the dispensation of the conciliation,
19 how that God was in Christ, conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them, and placing in us the word of the conciliation."
20 For Christ, then, are we ambassadors, as of God entreating through us. We are beseeching for Christ's sake, "Be conciliated to God!"
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For the One not knowing sin, He makes to be a sin offering for our sakes that we may be becoming God's righteousness in Him."george
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