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 for it,

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

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 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 were all dead;

for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, though rich, that you by his poverty might be rich.

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

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

who gave himself a ransom for all, a testimony for its own times,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

whence also he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, always living to intercede for them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps,

By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his blood,

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

A sacrifice

For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,

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

but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God,

For a

for we are a sweet odor of Christ to God, in the saved and in the lost,

General references

Be merciful, as your father is merciful;

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

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.