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 savour.
2 and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
2 Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
4 Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
4 Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
(Read Philippians 2:1-4)
Here are further exhortations to Christian duties; to like-mindedness and lowly-mindedness, according to the example of the Lord Jesus. Kindness is the law of Christ's kingdom, the lesson of his school, the livery of his family. Several motives to brotherly love are mentioned. If you expect or experience the benefit of God's compassions to yourselves, be compassionate one to another. It is the joy of ministers to see people like-minded. Christ came to humble us, let there not be among us a spirit of pride. We must be severe upon our own faults, and quick in observing our own defects, but ready to make favourable allowances for others. We must kindly care for others, but not be busy-bodies in other men's matters. Neither inward nor outward peace can be enjoyed, without lowliness of mind.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
5 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
(Read Philippians 2:5-11)
The example of our Lord Jesus Christ is set before us. We must resemble him in his life, if we would have the benefit of his death. Notice the two natures of Christ; his Divine nature, and human nature. Who being in the form of God, partaking the Divine nature, as the eternal and only-begotten Son of God, John 5:23. Here we see such motives to self-denying love as nothing else can supply. Do we thus love and obey the Son of God?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ephesians 5:2
Commentary on Ephesians 5:1-2
(Read Ephesians 5:1-2)
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 heavenly Father. In Christ's sacrifice his love triumphs, and we are to consider it fully.