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 husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

and be sensible of his exceeding love, in giving you the knowledge of Christ, that you may be filled with all the supplies of divine bounty.

as the son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for all.

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

to this I am urg'd by the love I bear to Christ, persuaded as I am, that if one died for all, then were all in a dying state: and that he died for all,

for you are sensible of the beneficence of our Lord Jesus Christ; powerful as he was, for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time:

who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and qualify us to be his peculiar people, passionately affected to virtue.

so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the holy spirit offered himself a spotless victim to God, purify our souls from deadly sins, to serve the living God?

in consequence of which WILL we are sanctified by the oblation which Jesus Christ has made once for all of his own body.

this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,

this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren.

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

and they sung a new song, saying, "thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation;

A sacrifice

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice.

Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, sat down on the right hand of God for ever:

For a

for God is pleased to accept my christian labours, in favour both of those who are in a saving, and of those who are in a ruinous state:

General references

be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus:

Let brotherly love still reign.

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