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Ephesians 5:2
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.
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.
EPHESIANS 5:2 h`ma/j {B} The external evidence supporting the two readings is rather evenly balanced (h`ma/j î46 ac D G K Y 33 614 1739 itpt vg syrp, h goth arm _al_; u`ma/j...
Verse Ephesians 5:2. _AND WALK IN LOVE_] Let every act of life be dictated by love to God and man. _AS CHRIST - HATH LOVED US_] Laying down your lives for your brethren if necessary; counting nothing...
AND WALK IN LOVE - That is, let your lives be characterized by love; let that be evinced in all your deportment and conversation; see notes on John 13:34. AS CHRIST ALSO HATH LOVED US - We are to evin...
3. THE WALK IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS Chapter S 4:17-5:21 _ 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17)_ 2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20) 3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5
EPHESIANS 4:25 TO EPHESIANS 5:2. PRECEPTS OF THE NEW LIFE. Away then with lying, resentment, stealing, foul talk, bad temper, lust. Remember the common membership (Ephesians 4:25). Give the devil no s...
You must become imitators of God, as well loved children imitate their father. You must live in love, as Christ loved you, and gave himself to God as a sacrifice and an offering, a sacrifice which was...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
LOVE. App-135. CHRIST. App-98. HATH LOVED. loved. App-135. US. The texts read "you". HATH GIVEN. gave up. Compare Romans 4:25.John 19:30. SWEETSMELLING SAVOUR. an odour of. sweet smell. SWEETSMEL...
_walk_ On the metaphor, see above on Ephesians 2:2. It is just in the _steps_of actual life that Divine grace is to shew itself, if it is indeed present. _as Christ also_ "_Also_," as an Exemplar addi...
ΚΑΘῺΣ ΚΑῚ Ὁ ΧΡΙΣΤῸΣ ἨΓΆΠΗΣΕΝ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ΚΑῚ ΠΑΡΈΔΩΚΕΝ ἙΑΥΤῸΝ ὙΠῈΡ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. Familiarity ought not to dull our sense of wonder at this instinctive re-enforcement of the appeal to the example of God by an appea...
17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΈΩ (G4043) ходить, вести образ жизни. _Praes. imper._ призывает к привычному действию, ΈΝ в. ΚΑΘΏΣ (G2531) подобно тому, как. ΉΓΆΠΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_...
DISCOURSE: 2114 CHRIST’S LOVE A PATTERN FOR OURS Ephesians 5:2. _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 savo...
AN OFFERING, &C.— Some think that the words προσφορα and θυσια are used in reference to the _peace-offering_ and the _sin-offering,_ as the truth of both is in the sacrifice of Christ, which appeased...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:17-32; EPHESIANS 5:1-2) B. Walk as becometh saints. Ephesians 4:17-32;...
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. AND - in proof that you are so. WALK - resuming Ephes...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
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 especia...
(3 _a_) In Ephesians 4:31 to Ephesians 5:2, he deals with malignity, as utterly unworthy of the love of God manifested to us in Jesus Christ....
V. (1, 2) These verses are an expansion and enforcement of the last verse of Ephesians 4. There the forgiveness of “God in Christ” is set forth in one pregnant phrase. Here the two parts of this idea...
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
καὶ περιπατεῖτε ἐν ἀγάπῃ : _and walk in love_. Here, again, καί _explains_ in _connecting_ and _adding_. The “imitation” must take effect in the practical, unmistakable form of a loving course of life...
A paragraph ruled by the general idea of the imitation of God in the forgiving love which has been appealed to in the preceding verse. In the light of that Divine example Paul charges his readers to f...
WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT Ephesians 5:1 It is indeed a high calling to imitate God and to walk in love after the measure of Christ; but it will be impossible unless we open our innermost heart to the...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Walking In Love Like God God extended his forgiveness to all men through the loving gift of his Son on Calvary. Paul's reference in 4:32 to Christians forgiving as God forgives led him to encourage t...
(1) В¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; (2) 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 savo...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_THE HIGHEST DIGNITY OF MAN_ ‘Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us.’ Ephesians 5:1 We can follow God in love. In this ability our highe...
I. INTRODUCTION A. As we return to the book of Ephesians, we continue our study on Christian behavior. 1. The Apostle Paul has just given the Ephesian Christians, (and us) a "list" of ungodly behavi...
2._And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us. _Having called on us to imitate God, he now calls on us to imitate Christ, who is our true model. We ought to embrace each other with that love with w...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
AND WALK IN LOVE,.... To God; to which the saints are obliged, not only by the law of God, which requires it, but by the goodness of God, and the discoveries of his love to them; and which shows itsel...
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. Ver. 2. _Hath loved us, and hath given_] When Christ wept...
_Therefore_ Because you are forgiven by God, and have been so much loved; (Ephesians 4:32;) _be ye followers_ Μιμηται, _imitators, of God_ In loving and forgiving; _as dear_ Αγαπητα, _beloved, childre...
SWEET - SMELLING SAVOR; peculiarly pleasing and acceptable to God....
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“AND WALK IN LOVE, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED YOU, AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR US, AN OFFERING AND. SACRIFICE TO GOD FOR AN ODOR OF. SWEET SMELL” “And”: Imitating God must take the form of practical demon...
1,2 Because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you, therefore be ye followers of God, imitators of God. Resemble him especially in his love and pardoning goodness, as becomes those beloved by their...
AND WALK IN LOVE; let your whole conversation be in love. AS CHRIST ALSO HATH LOVED US, AND HATH GIVEN HIMSELF FOR US; viz. to die for us, GALATIANS 2:20, as the greatest argument of his love, 1 Thess...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians For, on hearing that I came bound from Syria for the common name and hope, trusting through your prayers to be permitted to fight with beasts at Rome, that so by...
Ephesians 5:2 And G2532 walk G4043 (G5720) in G1722 love G26 as G2531 Christ G5547 also G2532 loved...
THE CHRISTIAN WALK IN LOVE, LIGHT AND WISDOM (5:1-21). ‘Therefore you be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering...
Ephesians 5:2. AND WALK IN LOVE; since in this (chap. Ephesians 4:32) they are to be imitators of God. ‘Love' is God's characteristic (chap. Ephesians 1:4-5), and our aim (chap....
III. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES. This part of the Epistle is difficult to analyze. The ethical precepts are not arranged in any discoverable logical order. For convenience a division into two sections i...
_2. Precepts based upon the Self-sacrificing Love of Christ._ The connection of thought with chap. Ephesians 4:32 is very close; God's forgiving love is directly presented as a motive (‘therefore') fo...
AN OFFERING AND A SACRIFICE TO GOD (προσφοραν κα θυσιαν τω θεω). Accusative in apposition with εαυτον (himself). Christ's death was an offering to God "in our behalf" (υπερ ημων) not an offering to...
Ephesians 5:2 , EPHESIANS 5:8 I. "Walk in love." Here we have a command founded upon a reason: "Walk in love, as Christ hath loved us." Yes, of all forces love is the most powerful as a force to act u...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
CONTROLLED BY LOVE. "The greatest _expression_ of God's love is his act in Christ to set us free! Christ himself loved us and voluntarily gave his life for us (John 10:17-18)_!_ Christ is our sin-offe...
_And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God._ WALKING IN LOVE I. I gather out of these words something calculated to touch the h...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:1 New Life in Love. Paul gives general instructions for holy living. Purity of life comes from avoiding evil deeds and relationships and adopting holy practices....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:1. FOLLOWERS OF GOD.—R.V. _imitators_. St. Paul gathers up all duties into one expression, “imitation of God,” and urges them on his readers by a reminder...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 Corinthians 16:14; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 1 John 3:11; 1 John 3:12;...
Walk in love. As imitators of God who is love. Loved us [η μ α ς] The correct reading is uJmav you. Gave [π α ρ ε δ ω κ ε ν]. To death Compare Romans 4:25, where the same verb was delivered is follow...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....
Here we have. second argument urged, to walk in love one with and one towards another, drawn from the example of Christ; he also, as well as God the Father, hath loved us; and the instance given of hi...