Ephesians 5:30

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

29For no one ever hated his own body; but nourisheth it, and provideth for it, even as the Messiah the church.

31For this reason, a man should quit his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and the two should be one flesh.

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Cross References

Romans 12:5so also we, who are collectively many persons, are one body in Messiah, and are naturally members of each other.

1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and in it are many members; and all those members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Messiah.

Colossians 2:19and holdeth not the head, from which the whole body is framed and constructed, with joints and members, and groweth with the growth given of God.

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:22-33

Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 61.) 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might… Read the whole commentary →

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