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, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

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

For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, that if one died for all, then all died;

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.

who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,

By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.

A sacrifice

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified with better sacrifices than these.

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right of God,

For a

And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

But its inward parts and its legs he shall wash in water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar, a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah.

And the priest shall burn them on the altar, bread of the fire offering for a sweet savor. All the fat is Jehovah's.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not delight in your solemn assemblies.

For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

General references

And he killed the burnt offering. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar.

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

one young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering;

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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

For let this 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.