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

1 John 4:11

Bible References

As

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

and to understand Christ's love, so far beyond our understanding, so that you may be filled with the very fulness of God.

just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,

You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.

who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

who gave himself as a ransom for all men. This is what was testified to at the proper times,

He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.

how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice.

That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps.

We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood

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

A sacrifice

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

By such means, therefore, these things that were only copied from the originals in heaven had to be purified, but the heavenly originals themselves required far better sacrifices than these.

But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

For a

Yes, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, diffused among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing alike;

General references

You must be merciful, just as your Father is.

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

Your love for the brotherhood must continue.

Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.