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Scott's Reference Library
2 Corinthians 5:16 through 2 Corinthians
5:21 (NIV)
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we
once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is
in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this
is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the
ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in
Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the
message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though
God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be
reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in
him we might become the righteousness of God.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 16-21
The renewed man acts upon new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in
new company. The believer is created anew; his heart is not merely set right,
but a new heart is given him. He is the workmanship of God, created in Christ
Jesus unto good works. Though the same as a man, he is changed in his character
and conduct. These words must and do mean more than an outward reformation. The
man who formerly saw no beauty in the Saviour that he should desire him, now
loves him above all things. The heart of the unregenerate is filled with enmity
against God, and God is justly offended with him. Yet there may be
reconciliation. Our offended God has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.
By the inspiration of God, the Scriptures were written, which are the word of
reconciliation; showing that peace has been made by the cross, and how we may be
interested therein. Though God cannot lose by the quarrel, nor gain by the
peace, yet he beseeches sinners to lay aside their enmity, and accept the
salvation he offers. Christ knew no sin. He was made Sin; not a sinner, but Sin,
a Sin-offering, a Sacrifice for sin. The end and design of all this was, that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him, might be justified freely by the
grace of God through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. Can any lose,
labour, or suffer too much for Him, who gave his beloved Son to be the Sacrifice
for their sins, that they might be made the righteousness of God in him?