Your sacrificial life to Jesus is a sweet aroma and pleasing to the Lord.

Your sacrificial life to Jesus is a sweet aroma and pleasing to the Lord.

“In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the LORD” (Num 28:24)
“Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.” (Eph 5:2)
“through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.” (2Cor 2:14)
“For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.” (2Cor 2:15)
“I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.” (Phil 4:18)
“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.” (2Cor 2:14)
“for it is God who works [energeo] in you both to will [thelo] and to do [energeo] for His good pleasure.” (Phil 2:13)
“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.” (2Cor 5:9)
“that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him” (Col 1:10)
“make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ” (Heb 13:21)
“And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” (1Jn 3:22)
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service [latreia]. And do not be conformed [suschematizo] to this world, but be transformed [metamorphoo] by the renewing [anakainosis] of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Rom 12:1-2)
Reading: Num 28-30; Matt 14