Ephesians 5:30

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

because we are members of his body.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
  • 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not a single member, but many. 15 If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that. 16 And if the ear says,“Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that. 17 If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell? 18 But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided. 19 If they were all the same member, where would the body be? 20 So now there are many members, but one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand,“I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot,“I do not need you.” 22 On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential, 23 and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity, 24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member, 25 so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another. 26 If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it. 27 Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.
  • Eph 1:23 : 23 Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
  • Gen 2:23 : 23 Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
  • Rom 12:5 : 5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.
  • Col 2:19 : 19 He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

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  • Eph 5:25-29
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    25Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

    26to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

    27so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

    28In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    29For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

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

    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

    16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

    17But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

    18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.

    19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

  • 1 Cor 12:22-27
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    22On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

    23and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

    24but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

    25so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

    26If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.

    27Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

  • 1 Cor 12:14-15
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    14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

    15If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

    8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 10:16-17
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    16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

    17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

  • 1 Cor 12:19-20
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    19If they were all the same member, where would the body be?

    20So now there are many members, but one body.

  • Eph 1:23
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    23Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

  • Eph 4:15-16
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    15But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

    16From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.

  • Eph 5:23
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    23because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).

  • 1 Cor 3:9
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    9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

  • Eph 4:25
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    25Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

  • Col 2:19
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    19He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

  • Rom 7:4-5
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    4So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

  • 1 Cor 7:4
    69%

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

  • 2 Sam 5:1
    69%

    1David Is Anointed King Over Israel All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying,“Look, we are your very flesh and blood!

  • 2 Cor 5:16
    69%

    16So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
    69%

    13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • Col 2:17
    69%

    17these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!

  • Rom 6:5
    68%

    5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

  • Eph 2:21
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    21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,