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He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. <a href="/esv/ephesians/5.htm">English Standard Version</a> And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. <a href="/bsb/ephesians/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. <a href="/blb/ephesians/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God, into an aroma of a sweet smell. <a href="/kjv/ephesians/5.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/ephesians/5.htm">New King James Version</a> And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. <a href="/nasb_/ephesians/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nasb/ephesians/5.htm">NASB 1995</a> 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. <a href="/nasb77/ephesians/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a> 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. <a href="/lsb/ephesians/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. <a href="/amp/ephesians/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a> and walk continually in love [that is, value one another—practice empathy and compassion, unselfishly seeking the best for others], just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God [slain for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance. <a href="/csb/ephesians/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. <a href="/hcsb/ephesians/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. <a href="/asv/ephesians/5.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/ephesians/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Let love be your guide. Christ loved us and offered his life for us as a sacrifice that pleases God. <a href="/erv/ephesians/5.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/ephesians/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Live in love as Christ also loved us. He gave his life for us as an offering and sacrifice, a soothing aroma to God. <a href="/gnt/ephesians/5.htm">Good News Translation</a> 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. <a href="/isv/ephesians/5.htm">International Standard Version</a> Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God. <a href="/net/ephesians/5.htm">NET Bible</a> and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. <a href="/nheb/ephesians/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. <a href="/wbt/ephesians/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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. <a href="/wey/ephesians/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> 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.<div class="vheading2">Majority Text Translations</div><a href="/msb/ephesians/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. <a href="/web/ephesians/5.htm">World English Bible</a> Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ephesians/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a refreshing fragrance, <a href="/blb/ephesians/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God, into an aroma of a sweet smell. <a href="/ylt/ephesians/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 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, <a href="/slt/ephesians/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ephesians/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> 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. <a href="/cpdv/ephesians/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness. <a href="/nabre/ephesians/5.htm">New American Bible</a> and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. <a href="/nrsvce/ephesians/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ephesians/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet example. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/ephesians/5.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> And walk in love, as also The Messiah has loved us and handed himself over for our persons, the offering and sacrifice to God, for a sweet fragrance.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/ephesians/5.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.<CM> <a href="/godbey/ephesians/5.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor. <a href="/haweis/ephesians/5.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell. <a href="/mace/ephesians/5.htm">Mace New Testament</a> for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God. <a href="/wey/ephesians/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> 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. <a href="/worrell/ephesians/5.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell. <a href="/worsley/ephesians/5.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> even as Christ hath loved us, and given Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet perfume. <a href="/parallel/ephesians/5-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AfeSHen3sAQ?start=829" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ephesians/5.htm">Imitators of God</a> 1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, 2<a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/4043.htm" title="4043: peripateite (V-PMA-2P) -- From peri and pateo; to tread all around, i.e. Walk at large; figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow.">walk</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/26.htm" title="26: agapē (N-DFS) -- From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.">love,</a> <a href="/greek/2531.htm" title="2531: kathōs (Adv) -- According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.">just as</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. "></a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/5547.htm" title="5547: Christos (N-NMS) -- Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.">Christ</a> <a href="/greek/25.htm" title="25: ēgapēsen (V-AIA-3S) -- To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.">loved</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: hēmas (PPro-A1P) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">us</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/3860.htm" title="3860: paredōken (V-AIA-3S) -- From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit.">gave Himself up</a> <a href="/greek/1438.htm" title="1438: heauton (RefPro-AM3S) -- Himself, herself, itself. "></a> <a href="/greek/5228.htm" title="5228: hyper (Prep) -- Gen: in behalf of; acc: above. ">for</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: hēmōn (PPro-G1P) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">us</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.">as</a> <a href="/greek/3744.htm" title="3744: osmēn (N-AFS) -- A smell, odor, savor. From ozo; fragrance."></a> <a href="/greek/2175.htm" title="2175: euōdias (N-GFS) -- A sweet smell, fragrance. From a compound of eu and a derivative of ozo; good-scentedness, i.e. Fragrance.">a fragrant</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. "></a> <a href="/greek/2378.htm" title="2378: thysian (N-AFS) -- Abstr. and concr: sacrifice; a sacrifice, offering. From thuo; sacrifice.">sacrificial</a> <a href="/greek/4376.htm" title="4376: prosphoran (N-AFS) -- An offering, sacrifice. From prosphero; presentation; concretely, an oblation or sacrifice.">offering</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tō (Art-DMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2316.htm" title="2316: Theō (N-DMS) -- A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.">to God.</a> 3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/john/13-34.htm">John 13:34-35</a> A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. / By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” <a href="/1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9-11</a> This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. / And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. / Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. <a href="/galatians/2-20.htm">Galatians 2:20</a> I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. <a href="/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8</a> But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. <a href="/1_john/3-16.htm">1 John 3:16</a> By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. <a href="/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14-15</a> For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. / And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again. <a href="/john/15-12.htm">John 15:12-13</a> This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. / Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. <a href="/1_peter/2-21.htm">1 Peter 2:21</a> For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps: <a href="/romans/14-15.htm">Romans 14:15</a> If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died. <a href="/1_corinthians/13-1.htm">1 Corinthians 13:1-3</a> If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. / If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. / If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. <a href="/philippians/2-5.htm">Philippians 2:5-8</a> Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: / Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, / but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. ... <a href="/colossians/3-14.htm">Colossians 3:14</a> And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity. <a href="/hebrews/10-10.htm">Hebrews 10:10-14</a> And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. / Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. / But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God. ... <a href="/leviticus/1-9.htm">Leviticus 1:9</a> The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. <a href="/exodus/29-18.htm">Exodus 29:18</a> Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling smell.walk.<a href="/ephesians/3-17.htm">Ephesians 3:17</a> That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,<a href="/ephesians/4-2.htm">Ephesians 4:2,15</a> With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; … <a href="/john/13-34.htm">John 13:34</a> A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.as.<a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Ephesians 5:25</a> Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;<a href="/ephesians/3-19.htm">Ephesians 3:19</a> And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.<a href="/matthew/20-28.htm">Matthew 20:28</a> Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.a sacrifice.<a href="/romans/8-3.htm">Romans 8:3</a> 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 for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:<a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">1 Corinthians 5:7</a> Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:<a href="/hebrews/9-23.htm">Hebrews 9:23</a> It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.for a.<a href="/genesis/8-21.htm">Genesis 8:21</a> And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.<a href="/leviticus/1-9.htm">Leviticus 1:9,13,17</a> But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD… <a href="/leviticus/3-16.htm">Leviticus 3:16</a> And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ephesians/4-1.htm">Act</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm">Aroma</a> <a href="/ephesians/3-13.htm">Behalf</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-32.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-16.htm">Death</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm">Fragrance</a> <a href="/daniel/2-46.htm">Fragrant</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm">Love</a> <a href="/acts/20-37.htm">Lovingly</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm">Odour</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/9-1.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-28.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm">Savor</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm">Savour</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm">Smell</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/hosea/14-6.htm">Sweet-Smelling</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-7.htm">Yielding</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ephesians/5-9.htm">Act</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Aroma</a> <a href="/ephesians/6-19.htm">Behalf</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Death</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Fragrance</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Fragrant</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Love</a> <a href="/luke/7-39.htm">Lovingly</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Odour</a> <a href="/philippians/1-4.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/philippians/2-17.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/genesis/8-21.htm">Savor</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Savour</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Smell</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/philippians/4-18.htm">Sweet-Smelling</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/colossians/1-6.htm">Yielding</a><div class="vheading2">Ephesians 5</div>1. <a href="/ephesians/5-1.htm">After general exhortations to love;</a> 3. <a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm">to flee sexual immorality;</a> 4. <a href="/ephesians/5-4.htm">and all uncleanness;</a> 7. <a href="/ephesians/5-7.htm">not to converse with the wicked;</a> 15. <a href="/ephesians/5-15.htm">to walk carefully;</a> 18. <a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm">and to be filled with the Spirit;</a> 22. <a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm">he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands;</a> 25. <a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">and husbands ought to love their wives,</a> 32. <a href="/ephesians/5-32.htm">even as Christ does his church.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ephesians/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ephesians/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ephesians/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>and walk in love The phrase "walk in love" emphasizes a continuous, active lifestyle characterized by love. In biblical context, "walk" often refers to one's conduct or way of life (e.g., <a href="/genesis/5-24.htm">Genesis 5:24</a>, Enoch walked with God). Love, in this sense, is agape love, which is selfless, sacrificial, and unconditional. This command echoes Jesus' teaching in <a href="/john/13-34.htm">John 13:34-35</a>, where He instructs His disciples to love one another as He has loved them. The call to walk in love is a reflection of the greatest commandments: to love God and love one's neighbor (<a href="/matthew/22-37.htm">Matthew 22:37-39</a>).just as Christ loved us This phrase sets the standard for Christian love, which is modeled after Christ's love for humanity. Christ's love is demonstrated through His incarnation, ministry, and ultimately His sacrificial death. The love of Christ is described as self-giving and redemptive, as seen in <a href="/romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8</a>, where God demonstrates His love for us through Christ's death while we were still sinners. This love is not based on merit but is a divine initiative.and gave Himself up for us Here, the focus is on the voluntary nature of Christ's sacrifice. The phrase "gave Himself up" indicates a willing and intentional act, aligning with <a href="/john/10-17.htm">John 10:17-18</a>, where Jesus states that He lays down His life of His own accord. This act of giving is central to the concept of atonement, where Christ's death serves as a substitutionary sacrifice for humanity's sins, fulfilling Old Testament prophecies such as <a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Isaiah 53:5-7</a>.as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God This imagery draws from Old Testament sacrificial practices, where offerings were made to God as a pleasing aroma (e.g., <a href="/leviticus/1-9.htm">Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17</a>). The term "fragrant" signifies acceptance and satisfaction by God, indicating that Christ's sacrifice was perfect and complete. This connects to the typology of Christ as the ultimate fulfillment of the sacrificial system, as seen in <a href="/hebrews/10-10.htm">Hebrews 10:10-14</a>, where His offering is described as once for all. The sacrificial language underscores the costliness and holiness of Christ's act, which reconciles humanity to God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a> The author of the letter to the Ephesians, providing guidance and instruction to the early Christian church. 2. <a href="/topical/e/ephesus.htm">Ephesus</a> A major city in Asia Minor where the Ephesian church was located, known for its diverse culture and religious practices. 3. <a href="/topical/c/christ.htm">Christ</a> Central figure in Christianity, whose sacrificial love is the model for Christian behavior. 4. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The recipient of Christ's sacrificial offering, emphasizing the divine relationship and purpose of Christ's actions. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_ephesian_church.htm">The Ephesian Church</a> The original audience of the letter, a community of believers navigating their faith in a complex cultural environment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_sacrificial_love.htm">Understanding Sacrificial Love</a> Christ's love is characterized by selflessness and sacrifice. Believers are called to emulate this love in their daily interactions. <a href="/topical/l/living_as_a_fragrant_offering.htm">Living as a Fragrant Offering</a> Our lives should be a pleasing aroma to God, reflecting Christ's sacrificial love in our actions and attitudes. <a href="/topical/w/walking_in_love.htm">Walking in Love</a> This is an active, continuous process. It requires intentionality and commitment to live out Christ's example. <a href="/topical/i/imitating_christ.htm">Imitating Christ</a> As followers of Christ, we are to model our lives after His, prioritizing love and sacrifice in our relationships. <a href="/topical/c/community_impact.htm">Community Impact</a> The love we exhibit should be evident to others, drawing them to the transformative power of Christ's love.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ephesians_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ephesians 5</a> <a href="/q/what_does_it_mean_to_walk_in_love.htm">What does it mean to walk in love?</a> <a href="/q/what_defines_the_true_gospel.htm">What defines the true gospel?</a> <a href="/q/who_was_ammon_in_the_bible.htm">What does it mean to walk in love?</a> <a href="/q/how_do_christians_prep_for_marriage.htm">How should a Christian prepare for marriage?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ephesians/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) As Christ also hath loved us.--To this idea of the "imitation of God," essential to all true religion, St. Paul now adds an exhortation to follow the example of our Lord Jesus Christ, in that especial exhibition of love by suffering and self-sacrifice, which is impossible to the Godhead in itself, but which belongs to the incarnate Son of God, and was the ultimate purpose of His incarnation. There is a similar connection of idea in <a href="/context/john/15-12.htm" title="This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.">John 15:12-13</a>, "This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." The imitation of God is in free and natural beneficence; the imitation of Christ is in that power of showing mercy, which is bought by suffering and sacrifice. He not only "loved us," but "gave Himself for us."An offering and a sacrifice to God,--The same words, "sacrifice and offering," are found in close connection in <a href="/hebrews/10-5.htm" title="Why when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:">Hebrews 10:5</a>, which is a quotation from <a href="/psalms/40-7.htm" title="Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,">Psalm 40:7</a>. Comparing these with the Hebrew words which they represent, and looking also to the etymology of the Greek words themselves, we see that the word "offering" signifies simply a gift offered to God, and is applied especially, though not exclusively, to unbloody sacrifices; while the word "sacrifice" distinctly implies the shedding of blood. Each word, when used alone, has constantly a more general sense. Thus "offering" is used in <a href="/hebrews/10-10.htm" title="By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.">Hebrews 10:10</a>; <a href="/hebrews/10-14.htm" title="For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified.">Hebrews 10:14</a>; <a href="/hebrews/10-18.htm" title="Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.">Hebrews 10:18</a>, for the sacrifice on the cross; while "sacrifice," in <a href="/acts/7-42.htm" title="Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?">Acts 7:42</a>, is made to translate the word commonly rendered as "offering." But when placed in juxtaposition they must be held distinctive; and hence we may conclude that our Lord made Himself "an offering" in the perfect obedience of His great humility, "coming to do God's will" (according to the prophetic anticipation of <a href="/context/psalms/40-7.htm" title="Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,">Psalm 40:7-8</a>), and gave Himself a "sacrifice," when He completed that offering by shedding His blood on the cross. Both are said to be offered "for us," i.e., on our behalf. We have, therefore, here a complete summary--all the more striking and characteristic because incidental--of the doctrine of the Atonement. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ephesians/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 2. - And walk in love. Taking up anew the exhortation of <a href="/ephesians/4-1.htm">Ephesians 4:1</a>. Let your ordinary life be spent in an atmosphere of love. Drink it in from heaven, as plants drink in the sunshine; radiate it forth from eyes and face; let hands and feet be active in the service; let looks, words, and acts all be steeped in it. Even as Christ also loved us. The passing from the Father to the Son as our Example is not a new departure; for the Son reveals the Father, the Son's love is the counterpart of the Father's, made visible to us in the way most fitted to impress us. Though Christ's love, like his Father's, is eternal, the aorist is used, to denote that specific act of love which is immediately in view. And gave himself for us. The Pauline phrase (<a href="/galatians/1-4.htm">Galatians 1:4</a>; <a href="/galatians/2-20.htm">Galatians 2:20</a>; <a href="/titus/2-14.htm">Titus 2:14</a>; <a href="/1_timothy/2-6.htm">1 Timothy 2:6</a>), simple, but very comprehensive: "himself" - all that he was as God, all that he became as Man, a complete self-surrender, a whole burnt offering. "For us," not merely on our behalf, but in our room (after verbs of giving, dying, etc.); this, indeed, being implied in the idea immediately following of a sacrifice, which, alike to the Jewish and pagan mind, conveyed the idea of a life given in room of another. An offering and a sacrifice to God. Offering and sacrifice are nearly synonymous, but the first probably includes the whole earthly career of Christ incarnate - his holy life, blessed example, gracious teaching, loving companionship, as well as his atoning death, which last is more precisely the θυσία, sacrifice. The offering and sacrifice were presented to God, to satisfy his justice, fulfill the demands of his law, and glorify his holy and righteous government. For a sweet-smelling savor. Allusion to Noah's sacrifice of every clean beast and of every fowl - " the Lord smelled a sweet savor;" that is, the whole transaction, not the offering merely, but the spirit in which it was offered likewise, was grateful to God. The whole work of Christ, and the beautiful spirit in which he offered himself, were grateful to the Father, and procure saving blessings for all who by faith make the offering their own. <a href="/commentaries/ephesians/5-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. walk περιπατεῖτε (peripateite) Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4043.htm">Strong's 4043: </a> From peri and pateo; to tread all around, i.e. Walk at large; figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. love, ἀγάπῃ (agapē) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_26.htm">Strong's 26: </a> From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. just as καθὼς (kathōs) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_2531.htm">Strong's 2531: </a> According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that. Christ Χριστὸς (Christos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5547.htm">Strong's 5547: </a> Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. loved ἠγάπησεν (ēgapēsen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_25.htm">Strong's 25: </a> To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. us ἡμᾶς (hēmas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. gave Himself up παρέδωκεν (paredōken) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3860.htm">Strong's 3860: </a> From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit. for ὑπὲρ (hyper) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_5228.htm">Strong's 5228: </a> Gen: in behalf of; acc: above. us ἡμῶν (hēmōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. as εἰς (eis) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1519.htm">Strong's 1519: </a> A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. a fragrant εὐωδίας (euōdias) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2175.htm">Strong's 2175: </a> A sweet smell, fragrance. From a compound of eu and a derivative of ozo; good-scentedness, i.e. Fragrance. sacrificial θυσίαν (thysian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2378.htm">Strong's 2378: </a> Abstr. and concr: sacrifice; a sacrifice, offering. From thuo; sacrifice. offering προσφορὰν (prosphoran) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4376.htm">Strong's 4376: </a> An offering, sacrifice. From prosphero; presentation; concretely, an oblation or sacrifice. to God. Θεῷ (Theō) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2316.htm">Strong's 2316: </a> A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ephesians/5-2.htm">Ephesians 5:2 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-2.htm">NT Letters: Ephesians 5:2 Walk in love even as Christ also (Ephes. Eph. 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