Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
New American Standard Bible
and
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us,
International Standard Version
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 Conservative Version
And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
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.
An Understandable Version
Live in a loving way, just like Christ loved us and gave Himself up [to die] for us as an offering and fragrant smelling sacrifice to God.
Anderson New Testament
and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Common New Testament
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God.
Darby Translation
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.
Godbey New Testament
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.
Goodspeed New Testament
and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
John Wesley New Testament
as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savour.
Julia Smith Translation
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.
King James 2000
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 fragrance.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
Modern King James verseion
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.
Moffatt New Testament
and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Montgomery New Testament
and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."
NET Bible
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
New Heart English Bible
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.
Noyes New Testament
and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.
Sawyer New Testament
and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.
The Emphasized Bible
And walk in love - even as, the Christ also, loved you, and delivered himself up in your behalf, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for a fragrance of sweet smell.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
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.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
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.
Williams New Testament
and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
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.
Worsley New Testament
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.
Themes
The atonement » Exhibits the » Love of Christ
The atonement » Acceptable to God
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » The offering of Christ
Christ » Reproves » Sacrifice of
Christ » Jesus Christ, Love Of » Sacrificial
Christian conduct » Loving one another
The death of Christ » Acceptable, as a sacrifice to God
Christ, our example » Conformity to, required in » Love
Incense » Figurative » Of an acceptable sacrifice
Love of Christ » To be imitated
Love to man » After the example of Christ
Offerings » Animal sacrifices » A type of Christ
Offerings » Illustrative of » Christ's offering of himself
Sacrifices » Were typical of Christ's sacrifice
Jesus Christ, Savior » Offered himself as a sacrifice
Vicarious suffering » Of Christ » Offered himself as a sacrifice
Topics
Interlinear
hemas
ἡμῶν
hemon
Usage: 388
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Paradidomi
heautou
References
American
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 5:2
Prayers for Ephesians 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Imitators Of God
1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, 2 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, 3 and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
Cross References
John 13:34
'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
Galatians 2:20
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
Colossians 3:14
and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection,
Hebrews 9:14
how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Genesis 8:21
and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, 'I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;
Romans 8:3
for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,
2 Corinthians 2:15
because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;
2 Corinthians 8:9
for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
Ephesians 5:25
The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,
Hebrews 9:26
since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,
Leviticus 1:9
and its inwards and its legs he doth wash with water; and the priest hath made perfume with the whole on the altar, a burnt-offering, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.
Leviticus 1:13
and the inwards and the legs he doth wash with water, and the priest hath brought the whole near, and hath made perfume on the altar; it is a burnt-offering, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.
Leviticus 1:17
and he hath cleaved it with its wings (he doth not separate it), and the priest hath made it a perfume on the altar, on the wood, which is on the fire; it is a burnt-offering, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.
Leviticus 3:16
and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar -- bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's.
Amos 5:21
I have hated -- I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.
John 6:51
I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
John 15:12-13
'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
Romans 4:25
who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
Romans 8:37
but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;
Romans 14:15-16
and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 5:7
cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,
1 Corinthians 16:14
let all your things be done in love.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
Galatians 1:4
who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
Ephesians 3:17
that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,
Ephesians 3:19
to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;
Ephesians 4:2
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
Ephesians 4:15
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
1 Thessalonians 4:9
And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
1 Timothy 2:6
who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
1 Timothy 4:12
let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
Titus 2:14
who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
Hebrews 7:25-27
whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 9:23
It is necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;
Hebrews 10:10-12
in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,
1 Peter 2:21-24
for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,
1 Peter 4:8
and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
1 John 3:11-12
because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
1 John 3:16
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
1 John 3:23
and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
1 John 4:20-21
if any one may say -- 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
Revelation 5:9
and they sing a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,