Ephesians 5:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because we are parts of his body.

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  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.
  • 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ. 13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit. 14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts. 15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same. 17 If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him. 19 And if they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 But now they are all different parts, but one body. 21 And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary; 23 And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect; 24 But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it; 25 So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another. 26 And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.
  • Eph 1:23 : 23 Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.
  • Gen 2:23 : 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
  • Rom 12:5 : 5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;
  • Col 2:19 : 19 And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

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  • Eph 5:25-29
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    25 Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

    26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

    27 And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

    28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

    29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

  • Eph 5:31-33
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    31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

    33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4 For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

    5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

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    15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

    16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

    17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

    18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

    19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

  • 12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

    24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

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    22 No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary;

    23 And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

    24 But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

    25 So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.

    26 And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

    27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

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    14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

    15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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    16 The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

    17 Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

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    19 And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

    20 But now they are all different parts, but one body.

  • 23 Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

  • Eph 4:15-16
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    15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

    16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

  • 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

  • 9 For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

  • 25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

  • 19 And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

  • Rom 7:4-5
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    4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

  • 4 The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

  • 1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

  • 16 For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

  • 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • 17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

  • 5 For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

  • 21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;