Ephesians 5:30 BSB — MannaFest

Ephesians 5:30

For we are members of His body.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

because we are members of his body.

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies (Book V, Chapter 2), Section 3 (202)

When, therefore, the mingled cup and the manufactured bread receives the Word of God, and the Eucharist of the blood and the body of Christ is made, from which things the substance of our flesh is increased and supported, how can they affirm that the flesh is incapable of receiving the gift of God, which is life eternal, which [flesh] is nourished from the body and blood of the Lord, and is a member of Him?-even as the blessed Paul declares in his Epistle to the Ephesians, that "we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

For we - The reason why Christ nourishes and cherishes the church is, that close connection between them which is here expressed in the words of Moses, originally spoken concerning Eve. Are members - Are as intimately united to Christ, in a spiritual sense, as if we were literally "flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone."

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He assigns this as a reason why Christ nourishes and cherishes his church--because all who belong to it are members of his body, that is, of his mystical body. Or, we are members out of his body: all the grace and glory which the church has are from Christ, as Eve was taken out of the man.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

We are members of his body - He has partaken of our nature, as we have partaken of the nature of Adam. And as he is the head of the Church and the Savior of this body; so we, being members of the Church, are members of his mystical body. That is, we are united to him by one Spirit in the closest intimacy, even similar to that which the members have with the body.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅτι	hoti	for	G3754 →
μέλη	melē	members	G3196 →
ἐσμὲν	esmen	we are	G1510 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
σώματος	sōmatos	body	G4983 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 2:23
And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
leads to
- Ephesians 5:28–30
  In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- 1 Corinthians 11:8–9
  For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.
Through
Ephesians 1:23
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
leads to
- Ephesians 4:12
  to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Colossians 1:18–19
  And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
- John 1:16
  From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
- Colossians 2:9–10
  For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
Through
Romans 12:5
so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 12:20
  As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
Through
1 Corinthians 6:15
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
leads to
- Colossians 2:19
  He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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Where the connections lead

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ephesians