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 wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

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

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh 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, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermostthose who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

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

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,

A sacrifice

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

For a

And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the LORD's.

"I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

General references

Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.

And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Let brotherly love continue.

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