Ephesians 5:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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  • John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
  • Col 3:14 : 14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
  • 2 Cor 2:15 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed 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 Every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, 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 to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, that you should follow his steps, 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Rev 1:5 : 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 washed us from our sins by his blood;
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • 1 Cor 16:14 : 14 Let all that you do be done in love.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 1 John 3:11-12 : 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
  • 1 John 4:20-21 : 20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 It was necessary therefore that 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 age, according to the will of our God and Father--
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
  • 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Heb 7:25-27 : 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them. 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to daily 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 constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • Rom 14:15-16 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. 16 Then don't let your good be slandered,
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
  • Eph 3:19 : 19 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
  • Eph 4:2 : 2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with 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, Christ;
  • Lev 1:9 : 9 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • Lev 1:13 : 13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • Lev 1:17 : 17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • Lev 3:16 : 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Yahweh's.
  • Amos 5:21 : 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, And I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
  • 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;
  • 1 Cor 5:7 : 7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

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