Ephesians 5:30

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

because we are members of His body.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τῆς σαρκός αὐτοῦ, καί ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

Because melē esmen of the sōmatos autou, from the sarkos autou, and from the osteōn autou

Grammar Details

• *Hoti*: conjunction - because/for
• *melē*: nominative, neuter, plural - members/parts
• *esmen*: present, indicative, 1st plural - we are
• *sōmatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of body
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *sarkos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of flesh
• *osteōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of bones

Word Meanings

• *melē*: members/parts/limbs
• *sōmatos*: body/physical form
• *sarkos*: flesh/body/physical nature
• *osteōn*: bones/skeletal parts

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV1611 – Modern English

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

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  because{G3754} we are{G2070} members{G3196} of his{G846} body.{G4983}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For{G3754} we are{G2070}{(G5748)} members{G3196} of his{G846} body{G4983}, of{G1537} his{G846} flesh{G4561}, and{G2532} of{G1537} his{G846} bones{G3747}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For we are members of his body of his flesshe and of his bones.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

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

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  because we are members of his body.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  because we are members of his body.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Because we are parts of his body.

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  because we are members of his body.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
• 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 Just as the body is one but has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Indeed, the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But now God has arranged the members, each one of them, in the body just as He desired. 19 If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But as it is, there are many members, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you,' nor can the head say to the feet, 'I have no need of you.' 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable. 23 And the parts of the body that we think are less honorable, we bestow greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 whereas our presentable parts have no need of it. But God has composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. If one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
• Eph 1:23 : 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
• Gen 2:23 : 23 The man said, 'This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called "woman," for she was taken out of man.'
• Rom 12:5 : 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
• Col 2:19 : 19 Such a person does not hold fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that comes from God.