Ephesians 5:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ περιπατεῖτε ἐν ἀγάπῃ, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ παρέδωκεν ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν προσφορὰν καὶ θυσίαν τῷ Θεῷ εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας.

Transliteration

And peripateite in agapē, kathōs also the Christos ēgapēsen us, and paredōken heauton hyper us prosphoran and thysian to the Theō for osmēn euōdias

Grammar Details

• *peripateite*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - walk/conduct yourselves [continuous command]
• *agapē*: dative, feminine, singular - love
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/even as
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ/Anointed One
• *ēgapēsen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - loved [completed action]
• *paredōken*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - gave up/delivered/handed over
• *heauton*: accusative, masculine, singular, reflexive pronoun - himself
• *hyper*: preposition + genitive - on behalf of/for
• *prosphoran*: accusative, feminine, singular - offering/sacrifice
• *thysian*: accusative, feminine, singular - sacrifice
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God/deity
• *osmēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - fragrance/aroma/odor
• *euōdias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of sweet smell/pleasant aroma

Word Meanings

• *peripateite*: walk/live/conduct yourselves
• *agapē*: love/charity
• *kathōs*: just as/according as/even as
• *ēgapēsen*: loved/cherished
• *paredōken*: gave up/delivered/surrendered/handed over
• *prosphoran*: offering/sacrifice/gift
• *thysian*: sacrifice/offering
• *osmēn euōdias*: fragrant aroma/sweet-smelling savor

Referenced Verses

• John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
• Col 3:14 : 14 and above all these things [put on] love, which is the bond of perfectness.
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• John 15:12-13 : 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• Gen 8:21 : 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
• Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• 2 Cor 2:15 : 15 For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;
• 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 9:26 : 26 else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
• Heb 10:10-12 : 10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And None every priest indeed standeth None day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
• 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 For {G1519} hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously: 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• 1 Cor 16:14 : 14 Let all that ye do be done in love.
• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 {G1161} above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
• 1 John 3:11-12 : 11 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: 12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore {G5101} slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
• 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
• 1 John 4:20-21 : 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, {G4459} cannot love God whom he hath not seen. 21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
• Heb 9:23 : 23 It was necessary therefore that {G3303} the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
• Gal 1:4 : 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony [to be borne] in its own times;
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
• Heb 7:25-27 : 25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 who {G2192} needeth not {G2596} daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that {G1487} one died for all, therefore {G599} all died; 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
• Rom 14:15-16 : 15 For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, {G3765} thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died. 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
• Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Eph 3:19 : 19 and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
• Eph 4:2 : 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
• Eph 4:15 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
• Lev 1:9 : 9 but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water. And the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
• Lev 1:13 : 13 but the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water. And the priest shall offer the whole, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
• Lev 1:17 : 17 and he shall rend it by the wings thereof, [but] shall not divide it asunder. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
• Lev 3:16 : 16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Jehovah's.
• Amos 5:21 : 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
• John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread {G1161} which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
• Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
• Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
• 1 Cor 5:7 : 7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ: