 So have you ever been punished for something you didn't do? If so, how did you react? Probably not favorably, but Jesus did, and he did this willingly. Romans 5.8 says, but God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. In 2 Corinthians 5.21, it says, he made the one who did not know sin, Jesus, to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God.