Ephesians 5:2 Parallel Translations
NASB: and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Live in love as Christ also loved us. He gave his life for us as an offering and sacrifice, a soothing aroma to God.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
ASV: and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
BBE: 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.
DBY: and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
ERV: and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.
WEY: And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.
WBS: And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.
WEB: Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
YLT: and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
Ephesians 5:2 Cross References
XREF:Exodus 29:18 "You shall offer up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD: it is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.

Exodus 29:25 "You shall take them from their hands, and offer them up in smoke on the altar on the burnt offering for a soothing aroma before the LORD; it is an offering by fire to the LORD.

John 6:51 "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh."

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

Romans 4:25 He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

Romans 8:37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

Romans 14:15 For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

2 Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which 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 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

Colossians 3:14 Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

Hebrews 7:27 who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
PNT: 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. Thus imitate God, and Christ who gave himself for us.
An offering and a sacrifice to God. In the Jewish temple there were offerings which were not sacrifices. Christ gave himself as an offering and was sacrificed.
A sweet-smelling savour. See Ge 8:21 Le 1:9 2Co 2:15. An expression denoting an offering grateful to God.
MHC: 5:1,2 Because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you, therefore be ye followers of God, imitators of God. Resemble him especially in his love and pardoning goodness, as becomes those beloved by their heavenly Father. In Christ's sacrifice his love triumphs, and we are to consider it fully.
CONC:Act Aroma Behalf Christ Death Delivered Fragrance Fragrant Love Loved Lovingly Odor Odour Offering Perfume Sacrifice Savor Savour Smell Sweet Sweetsmelling Sweet-smelling Walk Yielding
PREV:Act Aroma Behalf Christ Death Fragrance Fragrant Love Lovingly Odour Offering Sacrifice Savor Savour Smell Sweet Sweet-Smelling Walk Yielding
NEXT:Act Aroma Behalf Christ Death Fragrance Fragrant Love Lovingly Odour Offering Sacrifice Savor Savour Smell Sweet Sweet-Smelling Walk Yielding
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