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;

that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

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, while we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

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

(that he might deliver us from the present evil world) according to the will of God and our Father,

I am crucified with Christ, and I live no longer, but Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

the man Christ Jesus, Who gave himself a ransom for all,

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

Wherefore he is able also, to save them to the uttermost who come to God thro' him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

By which will we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For even hereunto are ye called; for Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye might follow his steps:

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because 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 first begotten from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth:

And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, 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: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to be a sacrifice for sin, he hath condemned sin in the flesh:

It was therefore necessary, that the patterns of things in heaven should be purified by these, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.

But he having offered one sacrifice for sins,

For a

For we are to God a sweet odour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

General references

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

This is my commandment, that ye 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.