Ephesians 5:2

Imitators Of God

¹ Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children, ² 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." ³ As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

For Us

Gave Himself

On Our Behalf

Sweet Savor

O God

Christ

Messiah

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment, Love one another!

Matthew 20:28

"just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Colossians 3:14

Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

Romans 8:3

For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

2 Corinthians 2:15

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

2 Corinthians 8:9

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

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

Hebrews 9:26

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood;

John 6:51

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

John 15:12-13

"This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you.

Romans 4:25

who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.

Romans 8:37

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.

Romans 14:15-16

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 5:7

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

Ephesians 3:17

that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,

Ephesians 3:19

and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

Ephesians 4:2

With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

Ephesians 4:15

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

Hebrews 7:25-27

Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

Hebrews 9:23

While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 10:10-12

And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

1 Peter 2:21-24

For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;

1 Peter 4:8

Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

1 John 3:11-12

For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."

1 John 3:16

By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3:23

His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do.

1 John 4:20-21

If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;