2 Corinthians 5:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he hath made him to be sin for us - The Greek here is, ‘for him who knew no sin, he hath made sin, or a sin-offering for us.’ The design of this very important verse is, to urge the strongest...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For he hath made him [to be] (q) sin for us, who (r) knew no sin; that we might be made the (s) righteousness of God in him. (q) A sinner, not in himself, but by imputation of the guilt of all our s...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:20 to 2 Corinthians 6:10 . Paul proceeds to expound and apply the relationship between himself and his converts based upon this ministry. He acts in Christ's stead when he beseeche...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

For . Omit. He, &c. Read, Him Who knew not sin, for us He made sin. sin . App-128. Only here and 2 Corinthians 11:7 , in this Epistle. The first occurance in this verse is by Figure of spe...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

21. Him who knew no sin. Do you observe, that, according to Paul, there is no return to favor with God, except what is founded on the sacrifice of Christ alone? Let us learn, therefore, to t...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2023 THE WAY OF RECONCILIATION WITH GOD 2 Corinthians 5:21 . 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 . A MORE im...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. For he hath made him to be sin for us - Τον μη γνοντα ἁμαρτιαν, ὑπερ ἡμων ἁμαρτιαν...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Made to be sin, &c.— "A sin-offering for us, that, by the sacrifice of himself, he might expiate the guilt of our transgressions, and that so we might be made accepted in him, and furnished w...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. For. So C. Omitted in 'Aleph (') B Delta G f g, Vulgate. The grand reason why th...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The subject of 2 Corinthians 4 is continued. St. Paul has been pointing out that amid bodily weakness and decay he is encouraged by the thought that the temporal is transient, while the spiritual i...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. — The “for” is omitted in many of the best MSS., but there is clearly a sequence of thought such as it expresses. The Greek order of the word...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 16 RECONCILIATION. 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (R.V) "IF any man be in Christ," Paul has said, "there is a new creation; he is another man and lives in another world. But the new creation ha...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ambassadors for Christ 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-10 On God's side the work of reconciliation is complete. Everything has been done and is in readiness to make forgiveness and j...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The vision of the house of God, and the coming at last to the Lord, throws its light on, and explains the value of, the groaning and the burden of the tabernacle, of the period of absence from the Ma...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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. Volumes might be written, on this most blessed verse of Scripture: and when all the pow...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘SUBSTITUTION’ ‘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.’ 2 Corinthians 5:21 I cannot understand the mind of that man wh...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For he hath made him to be sin for us ,.... Christ was made of a woman, took flesh of a sinful woman; though the flesh he took of her was not sinful, being sanctified by the Spirit of God, the forme...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 21. To be sin for us ] That is, a sin offering, or an exceeding sinner, as E...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For he made him, who knew no sin A commendation peculiar to Christ; to be sin Or a sin-offering rather, (as the expression often signifies both in the Old Testament and the New;) for us Who k...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Unquestioned certainty as to the future, and present confidence of faith are seen here further developed. "We know" is the proper language of Christianity. "The earthly house of this tabernacle" is o...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ministry of the Apostles. A. D. 57. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh:...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin: Christ knew no sin, as he was guilty of no sin; Which of you (saith he, 1 Thessalonians 8:46 ) convinceth me of sin? 1 Peter 2:22...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God's Ministry of Reconciliation ( 2 Corinthians 5:11 to 2 Corinthians 6:2 ). Having spoken of God's work in the heart through His Spirit, and of the new covenant, followed by the revelation of...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 5:1 .—Flow of thought quite continuous from 2 Corinthians 4:18 . For ( 2 Corinthians 4:15 ).… For (17).… For ( 2 Corinthians 5:1 ).… For (2).… For...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Scofield Reference Notes

sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ). righteous ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 5:21 ).
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 The Sinless made Sin and the Sinful made Righteous. I. Jesus Christ was personally sinless. II. As the voluntary representative of sinful men, Jesus Christ was through a limit...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:9-11 . Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the thin...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 5:1 . We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God eternal in the heavens. The contrast between a house made with hands, and a house...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ. High doctrine Whatsoever the Christian can desire is to be found in the “all things.” But lest even that should not...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel ( 2 Corinthians 5:1-47 ). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation ( 2 Cor...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The ministry of reconciliation:
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 John 2:1 ; 1 John 2:2 ; 1 John 3:5 ; 1 Peter 2:22-24 ; 1 Peter 3:18 ; 2 Corinthians 5:17 ; Daniel 9:24 ; Daniel 9:26 ; Ephesians 5:2 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Hebrews 7:26...
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He made him a sin offering, who knew no sin — A commendation peculiar to Christ. For us — Who knew no righteousness, who were inwardly and outwardly nothing but sin; who must have been consumed by...

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 5:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 5:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Corinthians 5:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes