Ephesians 5:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 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; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
• Col 3:14 : 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
• John 15:12-13 : 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, 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 the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing 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 unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
• 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I 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 be rich.
• Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 9:26 : 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
• Heb 10:10-12 : 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
• 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us 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, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
• 1 Cor 16:14 : 14 Let all your things be done with charity.
• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
• 1 John 3:11-12 : 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
• 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, 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 on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, 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, how can he 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 therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified 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 from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, 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 peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• Heb 7:25-27 : 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• Rom 14:15-16 : 15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, 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 by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Eph 3:19 : 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with 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 the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
• Lev 1:9 : 9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• Lev 1:13 : 13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• Lev 1:17 : 17 And he shall cleave it with 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 sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• 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 savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.
• Amos 5:21 : 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
• John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
• Rom 4:25 : 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
• Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• 1 Cor 5:7 : 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: