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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.
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Love Is a Walk, Not Just a Feeling
Commentators emphasize that to "walk in love" is to live a life characterized by active, self-giving love, not just a passive feeling. Christ is the ultimate model. As one scholar puts it, his feet have "marked out the track for us." This challenges believers to constantly measure their actions and attitudes against the standard of Christ's sacrificial love for others.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And walk in love. That is, let your lives be characterized by love; let that be shown in all your conduct and speech (see commentary on Jo…
An offering and a sacrifice to God (προσφοραν κα θυσιαν τω θεω). Accusative in apposition with εαυτον (himself). Christ's death wa…
19th Century
Anglican
As Christ also hath loved us.—To this idea of the “imitation of God,” essential to all true religion, St. Paul now adds an exhorta…
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Baptist
What a path to walk in! Walk in love. What a well-paved way it is! As Christ also hath loved us. What a blessed Person for us to …
God is love (), and the life that is like the life of God will be a life of love. Love is the essential of the Christian character. Paul has repeat…
16th Century
Protestant
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 m…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 o…
Because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you, therefore be followers of God, imitators of God. Resemble him especially in his love and pardonin…
