Ephesians 5:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Genesis 8:21

And 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.

Exodus 29:18

And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Exodus 29:25

Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Leviticus 1:13

But 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 1:17

And let it be broken open at the wings, but not cut in two; and let it be burned on the altar by the priest on the wood which is on the fire; it is a burned offering; an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

Leviticus 1:9

But its inside parts and its legs are to be washed with water, and it will all be burned on the altar by the priest for a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

Leviticus 3:16

That 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.

Amos 5:21

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

Numbers 7:21

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

Matthew 20:28

Even 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 13:34

I 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.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

Romans 15:16

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 4:25

Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

Romans 8:3

For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

Romans 8:37

But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all you do be done in love.

1 Corinthians 5:7

Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

2 Corinthians 2:14

But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

Galatians 1:4

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

Galatians 2:20

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

Ephesians 1:4

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

Ephesians 3:17

So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

Ephesians 3:19

And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.

Ephesians 4:15

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

Ephesians 4:2

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

Ephesians 5:15

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

Deuteronomy 27:6

You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:

Philippians 4:18

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

Colossians 3:14

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

1 Timothy 2:6

Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.

Titus 2:14

Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

Hebrews 8:3

Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

Hebrews 9:23

For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

Hebrews 9:26

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

1 Peter 4:8

And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

1 John 3:16

In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

1 John 3:23

And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

Revelation 1:5

And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

Revelation 5:9

And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,