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

Bible References

As

Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,

To get to know, also, the knowledge-surpassing, love of the Christ, - in order that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God:

Just as, the Son of Man, came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom instead of many.

This, is my own commandment, That ye be loving one another, just as I loved you.

For, the love of the Christ, constraineth us; -

For ye are taking knowledge of the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ, - how that, for your sakes, he became destitute - although he was, rich, in order that, ye, by his destitution, might be enriched.

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, -

With Christ, have I been crucified; and, living no longer, am, I, but, living in me, is, Christ, - while, so far as I now do live in flesh, by faith, I live - The faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up in my behalf.

Who gave himself a ransom in behalf of all, - the testimony, in its own fit times:

Who gave himself up in our behalf, that he might redeem us from all manner of lawlessness, and purify for himself a people as his own treasure - zealous of noble works.

Whence he is able, even to be saving unto the very end, them who approach, through him, unto God; Since he evermore liveth to be interceding in their behalf.

How much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who through an age-abiding spirit offered himself unspotted unto God, purify our conscience from dead works, to the rendering of divine-service, unto a Living God?

By which will, we have been made holy, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

For, hereunto, have ye been called; because, Christ also, suffered in your behalf, unto you, leaving behind a pattern, that ye might follow in his steps:

Hereby, have we come to understand love: in that, He, for us, his life laid down; and, we, ought, for the brethren, our lives to lay down.

and from - Jesus Christ, - The Faithful Witness, The Firstborn of the Dead, and The Ruler of the Kings of the Earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us out of our sins with his blood, -

and they sing a new song, saying - Worthy, art thou, to take the scroll and to open the seals thereof; because thou wast slain, and didst redeem unto God by thy blood men out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

A sacrifice

For, what was impossible by the law in that it was weak through the flesh, God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

It was indeed therefore necessary for the glimpses of the things in the heavens with these to be purified; but, the heavenly things themselves, with better sacrifices than these.

But this priest, having offered one sacrifice for sins evermore, sat down on the right hand of God:

For a

And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man's sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth, - neither will I again, any more smite every living thing, as I have done.

But its inwards and its legs, shall they bathe with water, - then shall the priest make, of the whole, a perfume at the altar, an ascending-sacrifice an altar-flame of a satisfying odour unto Yahweh.

Then shall the priest make a perfume at the altar, - the food of an altar-flame for a satisfying odour, - all the fat - unto Yahweh.

I hate, I despise your festivals, - and can scent no fragrance in your solemn feasts.

That, of Christ, a grateful odour, are we, unto God, - in them who are being saved, and in them who are being lost:

General references

Then slew he the ascending-sacrifice, - and the sons of Aaron presented unto him the blood, and he dashed it against the altar round about.

And the priest shall cause the ascending-sacrifice, and the meal-offering to ascend at the altar, - so shall the priest put a propitiatory-covering over him, and he shall be clean.

and thou shalt remember that a servant, thou wast in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh thy God, redeemed thee, - for this cause, am I commanding thee this thing, to-day.

so shalt thou remember that a servant, becamest thou in the land of Egypt, - therefore, am I commending thee to do this thing.

Become ye compassionate, according as, your Father, is, compassionate;

This, is my own commandment, That ye be loving one another, just as I loved you.

The same thing, esteem, in yourselves, which also, in Christ Jesus, ye esteem , -

Let brotherly love continue.

Beloved! If, in this way, God, loved us, we also, ought to love, one another.