Ephesians 5:2

Imitators Of God

¹ Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children. ² And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor. ³ But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

For Us

Gave Himself

On Our Behalf

Sweet Savor

O God

Christ

Messiah

John 13:34

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as the redemption-price for many."

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

Colossians 3:14

And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;

Hebrews 9:14

how much more certainly shall the blood of Christ, who strengthened by the eternal Spirit offered Himself to God, free from blemish, purify your consciences from lifeless works for you to serve the ever-living God?

Romans 8:3

For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing;

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the condescending goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ--how for your sakes He became poor, though He was rich, in order that you through His poverty might grow rich.

Ephesians 5:25

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

Hebrews 9:26

In that case Christ would have needed to suffer many times, from the creation of the world onwards; but as a matter of fact He has appeared once for all, at the Close of the Ages, in order to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood,

John 6:51

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

John 15:12-13

This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

Romans 4:25

who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.

Romans 8:37

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who has loved us.

Romans 14:15-16

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 5:7

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this--that One having died for all, His death was their death,

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father.

Ephesians 3:17

I pray that Christ may make His home in your hearts through your faith; so that having your roots deep and your foundations strong, in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea,

Ephesians 3:19

yes, to attain to a knowledge of the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance with God's own standard of completeness.

Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

Ephesians 4:15

But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave Himself as the redemption price for all--a fact testified to at its own appointed time,

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

Hebrews 7:25-27

Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.

Hebrews 9:23

It was needful therefore that the copies of the things in Heaven should be cleansed in this way, but that the heavenly things themselves should be cleansed with more costly sacrifices.

Hebrews 10:10-12

It is through that divine will that we have been set free from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice once for all.

1 Peter 2:21-24

And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.

1 John 3:11-12

For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--that we are to love one another.

1 John 3:16

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

1 John 3:23

And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.

1 John 4:20-21

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Revelation 5:9

And now they sing a new song. "It is fitting," they say, "that Thou shouldst be the One to take the book And break its seals; Because Thou hast been offered in sacrifice, And hast purchased for God with Thine own blood Some out of every tribe and language and people and nation,