Ephesians 5:2

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and follow the path of love. That’s what Christ did. He loved us and gave himself up for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.

Cross References

John 13:34

“I’m giving you a new command: Love one another. You must love one another just as I have loved you.

Galatians 2:20

I’ve been crucified with Christ. I’m not the one living anymore. Christ is living in me. I do continue to live in this body, but I do that by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Colossians 3:14

Over all these good things put on love, which holds them all together perfectly as if they were one.

2 Corinthians 2:15

God considers us to be the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us to set us free from all wrongdoing and purify us, so that we can be his very own people and be eager to do what is good.

1 Corinthians 16:14

and be loving in everything you do.

Matthew 20:28

Be like the Son of Man, who didn’t come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life to set people free.”

1 Peter 4:8

Most of all, love one another deeply, because love covers over many sins.

2 Corinthians 8:9

You know how generous our Lord Jesus Christ was. Even though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, so that because he became poor, you would become rich.

1 John 3:16

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ gave his life for us. So we should give our own lives for our brothers and sisters.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to rise from the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. Jesus loves us and has set us free from our sins by his blood.

Hebrews 9:26

If he had, he would have had to suffer many times since the world was created. No, he has appeared once and for all time, now when God’s work is being completed. He has come to do away with sin by offering himself.

Hebrews 9:14

So how much cleaner will the blood of Christ make us! He offered himself to God without any flaw through the power of the eternal Holy Spirit. His blood washes away our feelings of guilt for committing sin. Sin always leads to death. But now we can serve the living God.

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself to pay for the sins of all people. We’ve been given this message at just the right time.

Ephesians 4:15

Instead, we’ll speak the truth in love and grow up in every way to become the body of Christ. Christ is the head

1 John 3:23

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

1 Timothy 4:12

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you’re a young person. Instead, set an example for the believers in what you say and in how you live, how you love, and in what you believe. Show the believers how to be pure.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

We don’t need to write to you about your love for one another, because God himself has taught you to love one another.

Ephesians 4:2

Be completely humble and gentle. Be patient and bear with one another in love.

Ephesians 3:17

Then Christ will live in your hearts because you believe in him. And I pray that your love will have deep roots and a strong foundation.

Galatians 1:4

Jesus gave his life for our sins. He did this to set us free from the evil age we’re now living in.

Revelation 5:9

They sang a new song that said, “You are worthy to take the scroll and break open its seals, because you were put to death, and you bought people for God with your blood. They come from every tribe, language, race, and nation.

Hebrews 9:23

So the copies of the heavenly things had to be made pure with these sacrifices. But the heavenly things themselves had to be made pure with better sacrifices.

Ephesians 3:19

And may you know his love, even though it can’t be known completely. Then you will be filled with everything God has for you.

Romans 8:3

God did what the written law was not able to do, since it was weakened by our sinful desires. God sent his Son to be an offering for sin. He sent him in human form like those who are susceptible to sin. When God did this, he passed judgment against sin so that it could no longer control people through their wrong desires.

Ephesians 5:25

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

1 Corinthians 5:7

Get rid of the old yeast. Then you can be like a new batch of dough without yeast. That’s what you really are already, because Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.

Romans 4:25

Jesus was handed over to die for our sins, and he was raised to life in order to make us right with God.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

Romans 8:37

No! In all these things we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us.

Romans 15:16

to serve Christ Jesus among the Gentiles. I’m like a priest of the good news, and I want the Gentiles to be an offering that pleases God because it has been made holy by the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 2:14

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as if we were prisoners in Christ’s victory parade. He uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere like perfume.

Ephesians 1:4

Before the world was created, God chose us in Christ to be holy and blameless in his eyes. Because he loved us,

Ephesians 5:15

So be very careful how you live. Don’t live as people who aren’t wise; live as people who are wise.

Philippians 4:18

I’ve already received my full pay, and I have more than enough. I have everything I need, now that Epaphroditus has brought me the gifts you sent. They’re a sweet-smelling offering, a sacrifice that God accepts and that makes him happy.

Hebrews 8:3

Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, so this priest had to have something to offer too.