II Corinthians 5:17-21 NIRV

Anyone who believes in Christ is a new creation. The old is gone! The new has come! It is all from God. He brought us back to Himself through Christ's death on the cross. And He has given us the task of bringing others back to Him through Christ.

God was bringing the world back to Himself through Christ. He did not hold people's sins against them. God has trusted us with the message that people may be brought back to him. So we are Christ's official messengers. It is as if God were making His appeal through us. Here is what Christ wants us to beg you to do. Come to God!

Christ didn't have any sin. But God made Him become sin for us. So we can be made right with God because of what Christ has done for us.


Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL READER'S VERSION. Copyright 1994 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervon Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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