Ephesians 5:2
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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In Context
1Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
Cross References
Genesis 8:21And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
Leviticus 1:13But the inside parts and the legs are to be washed with water; and the priest will make an offering of all of it, burning it on the altar: it is a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.
Leviticus 3:16That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.
Deuteronomy 27:6You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:
Matthew 20:28Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
John 13:34I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for 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 →