Ephesians 5:2

and be-walking-around in to{love} according-as also the Anointed loves us and gives-aside/delivers sameself over/for-the-sake of{us}, [a] carry-toward[i.e. offering] and sacrifice to{the God} into smell of{good-smell-ia}.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

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

1So, be-becoming imitators of{the God}, as beloved offsprings,

3Moreover, sexual-immorality and every unclean-ia or greater-having-ia: neither be-being-name-ized in to{you}, according-as is-being-fitting to{holy[plural]},

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Cross References

Matthew 20:28even-as the son of{the man} does_not_come to-be-served; contrariwise, to-serve and to-give the life of{same}, [a] price-of-release in-place-of of{many},"

John 13:34I-am-giving to{you} [a] new command in-which-place you-should-be-loving one-another according-as I-love you, in-which-place also you should-be-loving 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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