2 Corinthians 5:21 (WEB)
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Catechism · 3
The Seven Petitions
“Forgiveness is the fundamental condition of the reconciliation of the children of God with their Father and of men with one another.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Cor 5:18-21; John Paul II, DM 14.
Jesus Died Crucified
“By sending his own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God "made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:21; cf. Phil 2:7; Rom 8:3.
The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
“"Christ, 'holy, innocent, and undefiled,' knew nothing of sin, but came only to expiate the sins of the people. the Church, however, clasping sinners to her bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows constantly the path of penance and renewal."” — Catechism footnote: LG 8 # 3; Cf. UR 3; 6; Heb 2:17; 726; 2 Cor 5:21.
Fathers and councils · 30
Origen
“For it is distinctly clear to us that “He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth; and as one who knew no sin,” God delivered Him up as pure for all who had sinned.” — editor's note: [1 Pet. ii. 22; 2 Cor. v. 21. S.]
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus IV.15Book IV
“But He did not, I imagine, undergo any change from “good to evil,” for “He did no sin;” nor from “virtue to vice,” for “He knew no sin.”” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. v. 21.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…heal our wound, and by His own death do away with the common death of all men,—then it was that for our sakes He was made obedient, even as He became “sin” and “a curse” by reason of the dispensation on our behalf, not being so by nature, but becoming so in His love for man.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“…of the Man with the Divinity, and which calls by the name of “making” the transmutation of the Mortal to the Immortal, of the Servant to the Lord, of Sin to Righteousness, of the Curse to the Blessing, of the Man to Christ.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. v. 21
Read the whole comment“…that, while the Man tasted death, the immortal Nature did not admit the suffering of death); and again; “He made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin,” giving once more the name of “sin” to the flesh.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“…thereby to establish his doctrine that the Lord is a thing made, let him now listen to Paul when he says, “He made Him to be sin for us, Who knew not sin.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“Well, as He Who knew not sin becomes sin, that He may take away the sin of the world, so on the other hand the flesh which received the Lord becomes Christ and Lord, being transformed by the…” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. v. 21
Read the whole comment“…been estranged from God, should of itself return to the high and heavenly place, for this cause, as saith the Apostle, He Who knew no sin is made sin for us, and frees us from the curse by taking on Him our curse as His own, and having taken up, and, in the language of the Apostle, “slain” in Himself “the enmity”…” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. v. 21
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…to be flesh, but to have put on flesh and become man, and on hearing, ‘Christ hath become a curse for us,’ and ‘He hath made Him sin for us who knew no sin,’ we do not simply conceive this, that whole Christ has become curse and sin, but that He has taken on Him the curse which lay against us (as the Apostle has…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13; 2 Cor. v. 21.
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John Damascene
“…again are said in the manner of association and relation, as, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? and He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin, and being made a curse for us; also, Then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him For neither as God nor as man was He…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For we also are called Thy righteousness; for thus saith a certain servant of Thine: “That we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“If death is from the serpent, the rod in the serpent is Christ in death.” — editor's note: [In sin, which is death. The Lamb was made sin (i.e. a serpent) for us. 2 Cor. v. 21.—C.]
Read the whole comment“For as it is said of the Lord, that He knew not sin, and it is understood, that He did no sin; so also he ought truly to be said to know righteousness, who doeth it.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“All these His saints are; as the Apostle saith, “But we may be the righteousness of God in Him.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“…but that which is of the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith;” and in another place, “That we may be the righteousness of God in Him.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“The same Apostle says in another place, “He made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“Whence it is said, “That we may be the righteousness of God in him.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“Hence the apostle, after saying, “We pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God,” forthwith adds: “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.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 20, 21
Read the whole comment“…on to say, “He hath made Him,” that is, Christ Himself, “who knew no sin, [to be] sin for us, that we may be the righteousness of God in Him,” “Him,” he says, Christ Himself our God, “who knew no sin.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 20, 21.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“He says “the expression ‘He was made Flesh’ seems to be parallel to His being said to have been made sin and a curse, not because the Lord was transmuted into these,—for how could He?—but because He accepted these when He took on Him our iniquities and bore our infirmities.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21. Gal. iii. 13
Read the whole comment“Orth.—But the blessed Paul calls Him “sin” and “curse.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21
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Ambrose of Milan
“…that for my sake Christ bore my infirmities, submitted to the affections of my body, that for me, that is to say, for every man, He was made sin, and a curse, that for me and in me was He humbled and made subject, that for me He is the Lamb, the Vine, the Rock, the Servant, the Son of an handmaid, knowing not the day…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21; Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“So it is written elsewhere: “Who knew no sin, but was made sin for us, for He bore our sins, that he might destroy them by the Sacrament of His Passion.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“Who, then, is He by the wound of Whose stripes we are healed but Christ the Lord? of Whom the same Isaiah prophesied His stripes were our healing, of Whom Paul the Apostle wrote in his epistle: “Who knew no sin, but was made sin for us.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“For it is written: “Ye are all one in Christ Jesus,” and elsewhere: “To those sanctified in Christ Jesus,” and again: “That we might be the righteousness of God in Him,” and in another place: “Should fall from the chastity which is in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 101Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“And so the passage, The Word was made Flesh, seems to me to be equivalent to that in which it is said that He was made sin, or a curse for us; not that the Lord was transformed into either of these, how could He be?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment “But look at it in this manner: that as for my sake He was called a curse, Who destroyed my curse; and sin, who taketh away the sin of the world; and became a new Adam to take the place of the old, just so He makes my disobedience His own as Head of the whole body.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
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Basil the Great
“What again would the heretics say about God unsubjected, and about His being made sin for us?” — editor's note: cf. 2 Cor. v. 21.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Him, Who knew no sin, He made to be sin on our behalf.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 20, 21. The Greek is ὑπὲρ χριστοῦ, ‘on behalf of Christ.’
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Aphrahat
“And He was slain for our iniquity, and was humiliated for our sins, and was made sin in His own person.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21.
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