Ephesians 5:30

because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

29For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

31"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

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Cross References

Romans 12:5so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members.

1 Corinthians 12:12For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with the Church of Christ.

Colossians 2:19Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.

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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