Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love—even as, the Christ also, loved you, and delivered himself up in your behalf, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for a fragrance of sweet smell.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
1Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,
Cross References
Genesis 8:21And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man’s sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth,—neither will I again, any more smite every living thing, as I have done.
Leviticus 1:13But the inwards and the legs, shall he bathe in water,—then shall the priest bring near the whole and make a perfume at the altar, an ascending-sacrifice, it is an altar-flame of a satisfying odour, unto Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:16Then shall the priest make a perfume at the altar,—the food of an altar-flame for a satisfying odour,—all the fat—unto Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 27:6Of whole stones, shalt thou build the altar of Yahweh thy God,—then shalt thou cause to go up thereon ascending-sacrifices, unto Yahweh thy God;
Matthew 20:28Just as, the Son of Man, came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom instead of many.
John 13:34A new commandment, give I unto you,—That ye be loving one another: Just as I loved you, that, ye also, 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 →