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 to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That 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.
• Col 3:14Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
• 2 Cor 2:15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
• Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• 1 Cor 16:14Let all that you do be done in love.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
• 1 Pet 2:21–24For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
• Heb 7:25–27Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession 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, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• John 15:12–13“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Gal 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father —
• Eph 4:15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
• 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• Heb 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• 1 Jn 4:20–21If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• 1 Jn 3:11–12For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
• Eph 4:2with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
• Heb 9:26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Lev 1:17He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
• Heb 10:10–12by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Heb 9:23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
• Eph 3:19and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
• Lev 1:9but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
• Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Amos 5:21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
• Eph 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
• Rom 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
• Rom 14:15–16Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
• Lev 1:13but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
• 1 Cor 5:7Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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