Ephesians 5:2
Good News Translation
Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that pleases God.

New Revised Standard Version
and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Contemporary English Version
Let love be your guide. Christ loved us and offered his life for us as a sacrifice that pleases God.

New American Bible
and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

walk.

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

Ephesians 4:2,15 With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. . . .

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Romans 14:16 Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all your things be done in charity.

Colossians 3:14 But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

1 Peter 4:8 But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.

1 John 3:11,12,23 For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another. . . .

1 John 4:20,21 If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not? . . .

as.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

Ephesians 3:19 To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

John 15:12,13 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:14,15 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

Hebrews 7:25-27 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. . . .

Hebrews 9:14,26 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? . . .

Hebrews 10:10,11 In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once. . . .

1 Peter 2:21-24 For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps. . . .

1 John 3:16 In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation:

a sacrifice.

Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.

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1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

Hebrews 9:23 It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 10:12 But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

for a.

Genesis 8:21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Leviticus 1:9,13,17 The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to the Lord. . . .

Leviticus 3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord's.

Amos 5:21 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish.

Context
Imitators of God
1Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: 2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. 3But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:…
Cross References
Exodus 29:18
And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt offering upon the altar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim of the Lord.

Exodus 29:25
And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the Lord, because it is his oblation.

Leviticus 1:9
The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to the Lord.

John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. [52] If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Romans 14:15
For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Romans 15:16
That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

2 Corinthians 2:14
Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish.

Galatians 2:20
And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Ephesians 1:4
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Ephesians 5:15
See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

Philippians 4:18
But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Colossians 3:14
But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.

Hebrews 7:27
Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, in offering himself.

Hebrews 8:3
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:10
In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

Hebrews 10:12
But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

Ephesians 5:1
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