Ephesians 5:2 Themes and Topics

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

Although at first He said, "You never wished or took delight in sacrifices and offerings, burnt-offerings and sin-offerings" -- all of which are repeatedly offered in accordance with the law -- He afterward said, "See, I have come to do your will." He is taking away the first to let the second take its place. It is by this will of God that we are consecrated through the offering of Jesus' body once for all.

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit, Verse Concepts

and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Sovereign of the kings of the earth. To Him who ever loves us and once for all released us from our sins by His blood, Verse Concepts

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends. Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father; Verse Concepts

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works. Verse Concepts

For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich. Verse Concepts

for, if that had been the case, He would have had to suffer over and over again, ever since the creation of the world. But, as it is, once at the close of the ages He has appeared, to put away sin by His sacrifice. Verse Concepts

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore, Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

You must let your brotherly love continue. Verse Concepts

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you. Verse Concepts

just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free." Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

who died for us, so that whether we still live or sleep we may live in fellowship with Him. Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. Verse Concepts

I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another. Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going. While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." On saying this Jesus went away and hid Himself.

Practice doing everything without grumbling and disputing, so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain. After He had taken His seat, His disciples came up to Him. Then He opened His mouth and continued to teach them as follows: "Blessed are those who feel poor in spiritual things, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them. read more.
"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be comforted. "Blessed are the lowly in mind, for they will possess the land. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied. "Blessed are those who show mercy, for they will have mercy shown them. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called God's sons. "Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them. "Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake. Keep on rejoicing and leaping for ecstasy, for your reward will be rich in heaven; for this is the way they persecuted the prophets who lived before you. "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot. You are the light of the world. A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden. People do not light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all that are in the house. Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.

So you must keep on following God's example, as dearly loved children of His, and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people; read more.
there must be no indecency, silly talk or suggestive jesting, for they are unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead. For you may be absolutely sure that no one who is sexually impure, immoral or greedy for gain (for that is idolatry) can have a part in the kingdom of Christ and God. Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient. So you must stop having anything to do with them. For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

But as to times and dates, brothers, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord is coming like a thief in the night. When people say, "Such peace and security!" then suddenly destruction falls upon them, like birth pains upon a woman who is about to become a mother, but they shall not escape, no, not at all. read more.
But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day, like a thief, should take you by surprise; for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you. Verse Concepts

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. Verse Concepts

I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another. Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you. Verse Concepts

I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another. Verse Concepts

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin. Verse Concepts

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Verse Concepts

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God. Verse Concepts

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For since the law cast only a shadow of the blessings to come and did not possess the reality itself of those blessings, the priests with the same sacrifices that are perpetually offered year after year cannot make perfect those who come to worship. Verse Concepts

You must clean out the old yeast, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are to be free from the old yeast. For our Passover Lamb, Christ, has already been sacrificed. Verse Concepts

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is taken into the sanctuary by the priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp. So Jesus, too, in order to purify the people by His own blood, suffered outside the gate. Let us, therefore, go to Him outside the camp, enduring the reproach that He endured;

Every other priest stands officiating day after day and over and over again offering the same sacrifices, although they are unable to take away our sins. But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

Then I saw, midway between the throne and the four living creatures, standing among the elders, a Lamb that looked as though He had been slaughtered. He had seven horns and seven eyes; the latter are the seven spirits of God which are sent on duty to every portion of the earth. Verse Concepts