Ephesians 5:2

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Summary

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

As

A sacrifice

Romans 8:3

Hebrews 9:23

Hebrews 10:12

For a

2 Corinthians 2:15

General references

1 John 4:11

Bible References

As

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

yes, to come at last to know the love of Christ, although it far surpasses human understanding, so that you may be filled with the perfect fullness of God.

just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.

For the love of Christ continuously constrains me, because I am convinced that as One died for all, all have died,

For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich.

who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, a fact that was testified to at the proper time,

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

Therefore, because He Himself lives always to intercede for them always, He is able to save completely any and all who come to God through Him.

how much more surely will the blood of Christ, who with an eternal Spirit gave Himself a spotless offering to God, purify your consciences from works that mean mere death, to serve the ever living God?

It is by this will of God that we are consecrated through the offering of Jesus' body once for all.

Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps.

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Sovereign of the kings of the earth. To Him who ever loves us and once for all released us from our sins by His blood,

Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the book and break its seals, because you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation,

A sacrifice

For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,

So, on the one hand, the copies of the original things in heaven had to be purified with such sacrifices; but on the other hand, the original things themselves in heaven with better sacrifices than these.

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

For a

Indeed, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, alike for those who are being saved and for those who are perishing;

General references

Continue to be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.

You must let your brotherly love continue.

Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.