Ephesians 5:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

📖 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

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  because we are members of His body.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.
• 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 No, rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23 And those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty. 24 But our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacked, 25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ and members individually.
• Eph 1:23 : 23 Which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
• Gen 2:23 : 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.
• Rom 12:5 : 5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
• Col 2:19 : 19 And not holding to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.