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 the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

that is, you will know the love of the Messiah which transcends knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God.

That's the way it is with the Son of Man. He did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."

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

The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.

I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

He gave himself as a ransom for everyone, the testimony at the proper time.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.

Therefore, because he always lives to intercede for them, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him.

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead actions so that we may serve the living God!

By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.

This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because: The Messiah also suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his steps.

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

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

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slaughtered. With your blood you purchased people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

A sacrifice

For what the Law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the form of humanity, he condemned sin by being incarnate,

Thus it was necessary for these earthly copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves are made clean with better sacrifices than these.

But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God."

For a

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings even though human inclinations remain evil from youth nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.

Then he is to wash its entrails and legs with water. After this, the priest is to offer all of it on the altar a burnt offering by fire, an aroma that will be pleasing to the LORD."

The priest is to burn it on the altar, a food offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat belongs to the LORD.

"I hate I despise your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.

To God we are the aroma of the Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are being lost.

General references

And so the burnt offering was slaughtered, and Aaron's sons secured for him the blood, which he poured on the altar and around it.

The priest is to offer both the whole burnt and the grain offerings on the altar. After the priest makes atonement for him, he will be clean."

one young bull, one ram, and a one year old male lamb for a burnt offering;

Don't ever forget that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, yet the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore, I'm giving you these commands today.

Remember to do this because you were slaves in the land of Egypt. That is why I'm commanding you to do this."

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."

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

Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in the Messiah Jesus:

Let brotherly love continue.

Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love one another.