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

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 up for her

by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died,

(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world ??by the will of our God and Father,

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

the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": ??in due time this was attested,

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body.

It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.

singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

A sacrifice

For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices.

For a

I live for God as the fragrance of Christ breathed alike on those who are being saved and on those who are perishing,

General references

Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.

Let your brotherly love continue.

Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.