Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionFor he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GFor He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of Elohim.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageFor God made the One who had never known sin to become sin itself on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the very righteousness of God.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleGod made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Footnotes
ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν ("made sin") is deliberately stark—while ἁμαρτία can render the Hebrew חַטָּאת (haṭṭāʾt, sin offering) in the LXX (cf. Lev 4–5), Paul uses the raw term for sin itself. Both readings carry weight: the sin-offering reading grounds this in Levitical typology; the "made sin" reading stresses the totality of Messiah's identification with human sinfulness. δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ here is not a divine attribute but a status granted to those ἐν αὐτῷ ("in Him")—righteousness received through union with Messiah.
