Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.
New American Standard Bible
and
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us,
International Standard Version
Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.
A Conservative Version
And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
American Standard Version
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
Amplified
and walk continually in love [that is, value one another—practice empathy and compassion, unselfishly seeking the best for others], just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God [slain for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance.
An Understandable Version
Live in a loving way, just like Christ loved us and gave Himself up [to die] for us as an offering and fragrant smelling sacrifice to God.
Anderson New Testament
and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.
Bible in Basic English
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
Common New Testament
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God.
Darby Translation
and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
Godbey New Testament
and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.
Goodspeed New Testament
and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
John Wesley New Testament
as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savour.
King James 2000
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling fragrance.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
Modern King James verseion
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.
Moffatt New Testament
and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Montgomery New Testament
and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."
NET Bible
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
New Heart English Bible
And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Noyes New Testament
and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.
Sawyer New Testament
and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.
The Emphasized Bible
And walk in love - even as, the Christ also, loved you, and delivered himself up in your behalf, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for a fragrance of sweet smell.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'
Webster
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 sweet-smelling savor.
Weymouth New Testament
And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.
Williams New Testament
and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
World English Bible
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Worrell New Testament
and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.
Worsley New Testament
even as Christ hath loved us, and given Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet perfume.
Youngs Literal Translation
and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
Themes
The atonement » Exhibits the » Love of Christ
The atonement » Acceptable to God
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » The offering of Christ
Christ » Reproves » Sacrifice of
Christ » Jesus Christ, Love Of » Sacrificial
Christian conduct » Loving one another
The death of Christ » Acceptable, as a sacrifice to God
Christ, our example » Conformity to, required in » Love
Incense » Figurative » Of an acceptable sacrifice
Love of Christ » To be imitated
Love to man » After the example of Christ
Offerings » Animal sacrifices » A type of Christ
Offerings » Illustrative of » Christ's offering of himself
Sacrifices » Were typical of Christ's sacrifice
Jesus Christ, Savior » Offered himself as a sacrifice
Vicarious suffering » Of Christ » Offered himself as a sacrifice
Topics
Interlinear
hemas
ἡμῶν
hemon
Usage: 388
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Paradidomi
heautou
References
American
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 5:2
Prayers for Ephesians 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Imitators Of God
1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children; 2 And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor. 3 And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
Cross References
John 13:34
A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.
Matthew 20:28
As the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
Colossians 3:14
And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?
Genesis 8:21
And Jehovah smelled a smell of sweetness; and Jehovah will say in his heart, I will not gather to curse the earth yet again on account of man; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: and I will not gather yet again to smite every living thing according to which I did.
Romans 8:3
For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:
2 Corinthians 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it;
Hebrews 9:26
(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the chief of the kings of the earth. To him having loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood,
Leviticus 1:9
And its bowels and its legs he shall wash in water: and the priest burnt all upon the altar, a burnt-offering a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.
Leviticus 1:13
And the bowels and the legs he shall wash in water: and the priest shall bring near all, and burn upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.
Leviticus 1:17
And he cleft it with its wings; he shall not divide; and the priest burnt it upon the altar, upon the wood which is upon the fire: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.
Leviticus 3:16
And the priest burnt them upon the altar; the bread of the sacrifice for an odor of sweetness: all the fat to Jehovah.
Amos 5:21
I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies.
John 6:51
I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.
John 15:12-13
This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.
Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.
Romans 8:37
But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us.
Romans 14:15-16
And if by food thy brother is grieved, thou no more walkest by love. Not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:
1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all things be in love.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:
Galatians 1:4
Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:
Ephesians 3:17
For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,
Ephesians 3:19
To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 4:2
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love;
Ephesians 4:15
And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:
1 Thessalonians 4:9
And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Timothy 2:6
Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time.
1 Timothy 4:12
Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.
Hebrews 7:25-27
Wherefore he is able to save entirely those coming to God by him, always living to supplicate for them.
Hebrews 9:23
Therefore truly a necessity for the patterns of things in the heavens to be purified with these; and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 10:10-12
In which will we are consecrated by the bringing in of the body of Jesus Christ once.
1 Peter 2:21-24
For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:
1 Peter 4:8
More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.
1 John 3:11-12
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:16
In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.
1 John 3:23
And this is his command, That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us command.
1 John 4:20-21
If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?
Revelation 5:9
And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open its seals: for thou wert slain, and didst purchase us to God by thy blood from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;