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 wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

"just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

"This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you.

For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

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

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time.

He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;

By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood;

And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

A sacrifice

For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.

this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God's right hand;

For a

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

General references

"Do you therefore be merciful, As your Father is merciful.

"This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Let brotherly love continue.

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