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Wives and Husbands

Ephesians 5:30

In 9 translations

BSB
For we are members of His body.BYZ and TR include—of His flesh and of His bones.
KJV
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
WEB
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
ASV
because we are members of his body.
LSV
because we are members of His body, [[of His flesh, and of His bones.]]
YLT
because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;
DBY
for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]
DRC
Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
GNV
For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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  • In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ἐκ τῆς σαρκός αὐτοῦ καί ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτοῦ (“from the flesh of Him and from the of bones of Him”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: αὐτοῦ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read αὐτοῦ; Robinson–Pierpont add ἐκ τῆς σαρκός αὐτοῦ καί ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτοῦ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ.
RP2018
ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτοῦ.
TR-Boyd
ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτοῦ.
SCR1894
οτι μελη εσμεν του σωματος αυτου εκ της σαρκος αυτου και εκ των οστεων αυτου

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Corinthians 6:15Do 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!
  • 1 Corinthians 12:12–27The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks,…
  • Romans 12:5so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
  • Genesis 2:23And 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.”
  • Ephesians 1:23which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
  • Colossians 2:19He 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.

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