Ephesians 5:2

Imitators Of God

¹ Be ye therefore imitators of God, as his dear children; live together in love, ² for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God. ³ But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

For Us

Gave Himself

On Our Behalf

Sweet Savor

O God

Christ

Messiah

John 13:34

a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."

Matthew 20:28

as the son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for all.

Galatians 2:20

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Colossians 3:14

to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the holy spirit offered himself a spotless victim to God, purify our souls from deadly sins, to serve the living God?

Romans 8:3

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

2 Corinthians 2:15

for God is pleased to accept my christian labours, in favour both of those who are in a saving, and of those who are in a ruinous state:

2 Corinthians 8:9

for you are sensible of the beneficence of our Lord Jesus Christ; powerful as he was, for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

Ephesians 5:25

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

Hebrews 9:26

for then must he have suffered several times since the beginning of the world, when in the consummation of the ages, he has appeared once for all to expiate sin by offering himself as a sacrifice.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood,

John 6:51

I am the living bread, that is come down from heaven: whosoever shall eat of this bread, shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

John 15:12-13

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Romans 4:25

who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Romans 8:37

yet after all we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us.

Romans 14:15-16

now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died?

1 Corinthians 5:7

purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, since you should be without leaven. for Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed for us.

1 Corinthians 16:14

let all your transactions flow from social affections.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

to this I am urg'd by the love I bear to Christ, persuaded as I am, that if one died for all, then were all in a dying state: and that he died for all,

Galatians 1:4

that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to

Ephesians 3:17

so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

Ephesians 3:19

and be sensible of his exceeding love, in giving you the knowledge of Christ, that you may be filled with all the supplies of divine bounty.

Ephesians 4:2

with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love;

Ephesians 4:15

but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:

1 Thessalonians 4:9

As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time:

1 Timothy 4:12

don't give occasion to any to despise your youth: but be a pattern to believers in your discourse, in your behaviour, by your charity, faith and chastity.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and qualify us to be his peculiar people, passionately affected to virtue.

Hebrews 7:25-27

so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 9:23

It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice.

Hebrews 10:10-12

in consequence of which WILL we are sanctified by the oblation which Jesus Christ has made once for all of his own body.

1 Peter 2:21-24

this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,

1 Peter 4:8

but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences.

1 John 3:11-12

for this is the doctrine that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 John 3:16

this is the proof of the divine love, Christ expos'd his life for us: and we ought to expose our lives for the brethren.

1 John 3:23

now this is his commandment, that we believe in his son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, as he commanded us.

1 John 4:20-21

if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?

Revelation 5:9

and they sung a new song, saying, "thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation;