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, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,

and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

even as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judged, that if one died for all, then all died;

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

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of God our Father;

I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

who gave himself a ransom for all; to which the testimony was to be borne in its own due times,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people to be his own, zealous in good works.

wherefore he is able also to save to the utmost those who come to God through him, since he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who by his everlasting spirit offered himself without spot to God, purify your conscience from dead works, for the worship of the living God!

And in this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For to this ye were called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps;

Herein we know love, in that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed to God by thy blood men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

A sacrifice

For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done, who on account of sin sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and passed sentence of condemnation on sin in the flesh;

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

but he, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down for ever on the right hand of God,

For a

For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing;

General references

Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

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

Yea, let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

Let brotherly love continue.

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