Ephesians 5:2

Believers are to walk in love modeled on Christ, who sacrificially gave himself for us. Christ's self-giving love is both the pattern and the power for our love.

Cross-references · 40

• John 13:34A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
• Gal 2:20I 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.
• Col 3:14And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
• 2 Cor 2:15For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
• Matt 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• 1 Cor 16:14Do everything in love.
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• 1 Pet 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
• 1 Pet 2:21–24For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
• Heb 7:25–27Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
• John 15:12–13This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.
• Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
• Gal 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
• Eph 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
• Rev 1:5and 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 has released us from our sins by His blood,
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
• 1 Jn 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
• Heb 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
• 1 Jn 4:20–21If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
• 1 Jn 3:11–12This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
• Eph 4:2with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
• Heb 9:26Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
• Lev 1:17He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
• Heb 10:10–12And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Eph 3:17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Heb 9:23So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
• Eph 3:19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
• Lev 1:9The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
• Rev 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
• Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
• Eph 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
• Rom 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
• Rom 14:15–16If 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.
• Lev 1:13The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall bring all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
• 1 Cor 5:7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
• Rom 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

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