Ephesians 5:2 “and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us a…”

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And walke in loue, euen as Christ hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smellling sauour 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.

Young's 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,

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.

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Cross references

“walk”

John 13:34 Colossians 3:14 1 Corinthians 16:14 1 Peter 4:8 Ephesians 4:15 1 Timothy 4:12

John 13:34 · BSB

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

Colossians 3:14 · BSB

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

1 Corinthians 16:14 · BSB

Do everything in love.

1 Peter 4:8 · BSB

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 4:15 · BSB

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.

1 Timothy 4:12 · BSB

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

“as”

Galatians 2:20 Matthew 20:28 Titus 2:14 2 Corinthians 8:9 Hebrews 7:25–27 1 Peter 2:21–24

Galatians 2:20 · BSB

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Matthew 20:28 · BSB

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Titus 2:14 · BSB

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

2 Corinthians 8:9 · BSB

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

Hebrews 7:25–27 · BSB

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

1 Peter 2:21–24 · BSB

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

“a sacrifice”

Hebrews 9:23 Romans 8:3 1 Corinthians 5:7 Hebrews 10:12

Hebrews 9:23 · BSB

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Romans 8:3 · BSB

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

1 Corinthians 5:7 · BSB

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Hebrews 10:12 · BSB

But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

“for a”

2 Corinthians 2:15 Genesis 8:21 Leviticus 1:17 Leviticus 1:9 Amos 5:21 Leviticus 1:13

2 Corinthians 2:15 · BSB

For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

Genesis 8:21 · BSB

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all l…

Leviticus 1:17 · BSB

He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Leviticus 1:9 · BSB

The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Amos 5:21 · BSB

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Leviticus 1:13 · BSB

The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Also

Romans 4:25 Romans 14:15–16 Romans 8:37 John 6:51

Romans 4:25 · BSB

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

Romans 14:15–16 · BSB

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Romans 8:37 · BSB

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

John 6:51 · BSB

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

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