Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The 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.

In Context

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

3But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

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Cross References

Matthew 20:28even as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:2-3

Cautions against Impurity. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 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. Here we have the exhortation to mutual love, or to Christian charity. The apostle had been insisting on this in the former chapter, and particularly in the last verses of it, to which the particle therefore refers, and connects what he had said there with what is contained in these… Read the whole commentary →

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