5:18 And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
5:19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us 1 the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:21
5:21 God 2 made the one who did not know sin 3 to be sin for us, so that in him 4 we would become the righteousness of God.
1 tn Or “he has entrusted to us.”
2 tnGrk “He”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 snThe one who did not know sin is a reference to Jesus Christ.