Ephesians 5:2

and walke in love even as Christ loved vs and gave him silfe for vs an offerynge and a sacrifyce of a swete saver to god.

Tyndale 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 ye folowers of god as dere children

3So that fornicacion and all vnclennes or coveteousnes be not once named amonge you as it be commeth saynctes:

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Cross References

Matthew 20:28even as the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto but to minister and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.

John 13:34A newe commaundment geve I vnto you that ye love to gedder as I have loved you that even so ye 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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