Ephesians 5:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Bible References

As

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God.

as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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

For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might be enriched.

who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, I, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times;

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.

Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:

Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood,

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

A sacrifice

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God,

For a

And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

but its inwards and its legs shall he wash in water; and the priest shall burn all on the altar, a burnt-offering, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour.

and the priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering by fire for a sweet odour. All the fat shall be Jehovah's.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies.

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

General references

And he slaughtered the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar round about.

And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the oblation upon the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering;

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

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

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;

Let brotherly love abide.

Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.