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

Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

and to know the love of Christ, transcendently surpassing knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

Even as the Son of man came not to be waited upon, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor though he was rich, that ye by his poverty should be made rich.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

I am crucified with Christ, yet I live; though no more I, but Christ liveth in me: and my present life in the flesh, is a life by faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and delivered up himself for me.

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be born in his appointed times;

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

Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

By the which will we are sanctified through the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

For hereunto have ye been called, because Christ also hath suffered for you, leaving you a pattern, that ye should follow his steps;

By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, and first-born from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: to him who loved us, and washed us from our sins by his blood,

And they sung a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereon; because thou hast been slaughtered, and hast redeemed us for God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

A sacrifice

For that which was impossible by the law, inasmuch as it was impotent through the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in that flesh:

There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

but this person, having offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever hath seated himself at the right hand of God;

For a

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those who are saved, and in those who perish.

General references

Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.

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

Let the same sentiment of mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

LET brotherly love continue.

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