Ephesians 1:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἥτις ἐστὶν τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ, τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ πάντα ἐν πᾶσιν πληρουμένου.

Transliteration

Which estin the sōma of him, the plērōma of the one all things in all plēroumenou.

Grammar Details

• *Hētis*: relative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - referring to *ekklēsia*
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - linking verb
• *sōma*: nominative, neuter, singular - predicate nominative
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• *plērōma*: nominative, neuter, singular - predicate nominative in apposition
• *panta*: accusative, neuter, plural - direct object
• *en*: preposition governing dative - sphere
• *pasin*: dative, neuter, plural - sphere
• *plēroumenou*: present middle participle, genitive, masculine, singular - substantive

Word Meanings

• *estin*: is/exists
• *sōma*: body/physical form
• *plērōma*: fullness/completion/that which fills
• *plēroumenou*: fills/completes/fulfills

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:12 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
• Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
• Col 1:18-19 : 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell;
• 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For {G2532} in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now they are many members, {G3303} but one body. 21 And the eye cannot {G3756} say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary: 23 and those parts of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness; 24 whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked; 25 that there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and {G1537} severally members thereof.
• John 1:16 : 16 For of his fulness {G2983} we all received, and grace for grace.
• Eph 5:23-32 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: 29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church; 30 because we are members of his body. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
• Eph 3:19 : 19 and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
• Eph 4:10 : 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
• Col 2:9-9 : 9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, 10 and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:
• Col 3:11 : 11 where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
• Col 3:15 : 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.
• Eph 4:4 : 4 [ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
• 1 Cor 12:6 : 6 And there are diversities of workings, but {G2076} the same God, who worketh all things in all.
• 1 Cor 15:28 : 28 And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.
• Eph 2:16 : 16 and {G846} might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: