Ephesians 5:2

The Text-Critical English New Testament

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Cross References

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that has come down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 4:25

who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Romans 8:3

For what the law was powerless to do since it was weak through the flesh, God has done. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 8:37

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Everything you do should be done in love.

1 Corinthians 5:7

Purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump of dough, since you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed for us.

2 Corinthians 2:14

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ everywhere.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are a sweet fragrance of Christ ascending to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you could become rich.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

Galatians 2:20

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

Ephesians 1:4

just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and unblemished before him in love.

Ephesians 3:17

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,

Ephesians 3:19

is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 4:15

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Ephesians 4:2

with all humility and gentleness, and with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 5:15

See then that you walk carefully, not as unwise people but as wise,

Ephesians 5:25

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

Philippians 4:18

I have received everything in full and have an abundance. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are an aroma of a sweet fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Colossians 3:14

Above all, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise yoʋ because yoʋ are young, but set an example for the believers in yoʋr speech, conduct, love, spirit, faith, and purity.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Hebrews 8:3

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore, it was necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9:23

So it was necessary for the copies of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but for the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 9:26

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, maintain a deep love for one another, because love will cover a multitude of sins.

1 John 3:16

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3:23

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he commanded.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins with his blood

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are yoʋ to take the scroll and open its seals, for yoʋ were slain, and by yoʋr blood yoʋ redeemed us for God out of every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.