Ephesians 5:30

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!
  • 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ, 13 for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink, 14 for also the body is not one member, but many; 15 if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body; 16 and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body? 17 If the whole body `were' an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling? 18 and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed, 19 and if all were one member, where the body? 20 and now, indeed, `are' many members, and one body; 21 and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.' 22 But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary, 23 and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant, 24 and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another, 26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members; 27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
  • Eph 1:23 : 23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,
  • Gen 2:23 : 23 and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;
  • Rom 12:5 : 5 so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.
  • Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 5:25-29
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    25 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

    26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

    27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

    28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

    29 for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

  • Eph 5:31-33
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    31 `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

    32 this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

    33 but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4 for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

    5 so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
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    15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

    16 have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

    17 And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

    18 flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

    19 Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12 For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ,

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

    6 so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23 and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

    24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 12:22-27
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    22 But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

    23 and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

    24 and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

    25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

    26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members;

    27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

  • 1 Cor 12:14-15
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    14 for also the body is not one member, but many;

    15 if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7 on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

    8 and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

  • 1 Cor 10:16-17
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    16 The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?

    17 because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.

  • 1 Cor 12:19-20
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    19 and if all were one member, where the body?

    20 and now, indeed, `are' many members, and one body;

  • Eph 1:23
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    23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

  • Eph 4:15-16
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    15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

    16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

  • Eph 5:23
    73%

    23 because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

  • 1 Cor 3:9
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    9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

  • Eph 4:25
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    25 Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

  • Col 2:19
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    19 and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.

  • Rom 7:4-5
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    4 So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

    5 for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

  • 1 Cor 7:4
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    4 the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

  • 2 Sam 5:1
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    1 And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, `Lo, we `are' thy bone and thy flesh;

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16 So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

  • Col 2:17
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    17 which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body `is' of the Christ;

  • Rom 6:5
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    5 For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, `so' also we shall be of the rising again;

  • Eph 2:21
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    21 in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,