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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

and they sing a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

A sacrifice

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

It is necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

For a

and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, 'I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

and its inwards and its legs he doth wash with water; and the priest hath made perfume with the whole on the altar, a burnt-offering, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.

and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar -- bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's.

I have hated -- I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.

because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

General references

And he slaughtereth the burnt-offering, and the sons of Aaron have presented unto him the blood, and he sprinkleth it on the altar round about;

and the priest hath caused the burnt-offering to ascend, also the present, on the altar, and the priest hath made atonement for him, and he hath been clean.

one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.

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

'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,

Let brotherly love remain;

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;