He took the evils of the world—that is to say, the sins of the entire human race—into Himself. “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24). St. Paul puts it even more strongly: “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin”—God the Father made Jesus, the sinless one, to be sin—“so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21, emphasis added). Here St. Paul is also describing what this does for us. Jesus becomes sin so that we can become righteousness. It is not just that we become righteous (adjective); rather, we become righteousness
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