Ephesians 5:30
New International Version
for we are members of his body.

New Living Translation
And we are members of his body.

English Standard Version
because we are members of his body.

Berean Standard Bible
For we are members of His body.

Berean Literal Bible
For we are members of His body.

King James Bible
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

New King James Version
For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

New American Standard Bible
because we are parts of His body.

NASB 1995
because we are members of His body.

NASB 1977
because we are members of His body.

Legacy Standard Bible
because we are members of His body.

Amplified Bible
because we are members (parts) of His body.

Christian Standard Bible
since we are members of his body.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
since we are members of His body.

American Standard Version
because we are members of his body.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because we are members of his body and we are of his flesh and of his bones.

Contemporary English Version
because we are each part of his body.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

English Revised Version
because we are members of his body.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We are parts of his body.

Good News Translation
for we are members of his body.)

International Standard Version
For we are parts of his body—of his flesh and of his bones.

Literal Standard Version
because we are members of His body, [[of His flesh, and of His bones.]]

Majority Standard Bible
For we are members of His body—of His and flesh of His bones.

New American Bible
because we are members of his body.

NET Bible
for we are members of his body.

New Revised Standard Version
because we are members of his body.

New Heart English Bible
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

Webster's Bible Translation
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Weymouth New Testament
because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

World English Bible
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

Young's Literal Translation
because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

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Context
Wives and Husbands
29Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. 30For we are members of His body. 31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:15
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.

Ephesians 1:23
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 5:29
Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.


Treasury of Scripture

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Ephesians 1:23
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Genesis 2:23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

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Ephesians 5
1. After general exhortations to love;
3. to flee sexual immorality;
4. and all uncleanness;
7. not to converse with the wicked;
15. to walk carefully;
18. and to be filled with the Spirit;
22. he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands;
25. and husbands ought to love their wives,
32. even as Christ does his church.














Verse 30. - For we are members of his body [being], of his flesh, and of his bones (the last seven words omitted in many manuscripts and in the R.V.). The reference is to the original formation of woman as narrated in Genesis 2. Her very name indicated that she was "taken from man." She was taken from him and given to him. So the Church is taken from Christ and given to him. Taken from his body, sprung from his incarnation and his crucifixion and resurrection, the spiritual offspring of his humanity, and then given to him, to be his servant, nay, above a servant, his companion, friend, and confidant for evermore. If it had not been for the body of Christ (Hebrews 10:5) the Church could have had no existence. No bride fit for the King of heaven could have sprung from the earth. As Eve came from the opened side of Adam, so figuratively the Church springs from the pierced side of Jesus.

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Greek
For
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

we are
ἐσμὲν (esmen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

members
μέλη (melē)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3196: A bodily organ, limb, member. Of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body.

of
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

body.
σώματος (sōmatos)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 4983: Body, flesh; the body of the Church. From sozo; the body, used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively.


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