Ephesians 5:2

James Moffatt - New Testament

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Cross References

John 13:34

I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Colossians 3:14

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

2 Corinthians 2:15

I live for God as the fragrance of Christ breathed alike on those who are being saved and on those who are perishing,

Titus 2:14

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all you do be done in love.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

2 Corinthians 8:9

(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

1 John 3:16

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

Hebrews 9:26

for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

1 Timothy 2:6

the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": — in due time this was attested,

Ephesians 4:15

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

1 John 3:23

Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

Ephesians 4:2

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

Ephesians 3:17

May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world — by the will of our God and Father,

Revelation 5:9

singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

Hebrews 9:23

Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices.

Ephesians 3:19

by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

Romans 8:3

For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

1 Corinthians 5:7

Clean out the old dough that you may be a fresh lump. For you are free from the old leaven; Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed.

Romans 4:25

Jesus who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised that we might be justified.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

Romans 8:37

No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Romans 15:16

as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 2:14

Wherever I go, thank God, he makes my life a constant pageant of triumph in Christ, diffusing the perfume of his knowledge everywhere by me.

Ephesians 1:4

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

Ephesians 5:15

Be strictly careful then about the life you lead; act like sensible men, not like thoughtless;

Philippians 4:18

Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

Hebrews 8:3

Now, as every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, he too must have something to offer.