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 just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

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

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God's purpose at his appointed time.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

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

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

They were singing a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

A sacrifice

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

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

For a

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Finally, the one presenting the offering must wash its entrails and its legs in water and the priest must offer all of it up in smoke on the altar -- it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma -- all the fat belongs to the Lord.

"I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing --

General references

He then slaughtered the burnt offering, and his sons handed the blood to him and he splashed it against the altar's sides.

and the priest is to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest is to make atonement for him and he will be clean.

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

Brotherly love must continue.

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.