2And 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.
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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)Here we have the exhortation to mutual love, or to Christian charity. The apostle had been insisting on this in the former chapter, and particularly in the Eph. 4:17-32 of it, to which the particle therefore refers, and connects what he had said there with what is contained in these verses, thus: “Because God, for Christ’s sake, has forgiven you, therefore be you followers of God, or imitators of…
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