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19 that is, God was in Christ reconciling[a] the world to himself,[b] not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin[c] who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:19 Or in Christ God was reconciling
  2. 5.19 Or, “God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ.”
  3. 5.21 made him to be sin: i.e., “sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh” (Rom 8.3).

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