Ephesians 5:30

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
because we are parts of his body.

Revised Standard Version
because we are members of his body.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For we are members of his body of his flesshe and of his bones.

Hebrew Names Version
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

New American Standard Bible
because we are parts of His body.

New Century Version
because we are parts of his body.

Update Bible Version
because we are members of his body.

Webster's Bible Translation
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

English Standard Version
because we are members of his body.

World English Bible
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Weymouth's New Testament
because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And we ben membris of his bodi, of his fleisch, and of his boonys.

English Revised Version
because we are members of his body.

Berean Standard Bible
For we are members of His body.

Contemporary English Version
because we are each part of his body.

Amplified Bible
because we are members (parts) of His body.

American Standard Version
because we are members of his body.

Bible in Basic English
Because we are parts of his body.

Complete Jewish Bible
because we are parts of his Body.

Darby Translation
for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]

International Standard Version
For we are parts of his body - of his flesh and of his bones.of his flesh and of his bones">[fn]Genesis 2:23; Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 12:27;">[xr]

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

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

King James Version (1611)
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

New Living Translation
And we are members of his body.

New Life Bible
We are all a part of His body, the church.

New Revised Standard
because we are members of his body.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, members, are we of his body; -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For we are members of his body, of his flesshe, and of his bones.

Good News Translation
for we are members of his body.)

Christian Standard Bible®
since we are members of his body.

Lexham English Bible
because we are members of his body.

Literal Translation
For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

Young's Literal Translation
because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For we are membres of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

Mace New Testament (1729)
of which we are the several parts constituting his body.

New English Translation
for we are members of his body.

New King James Version
For we are members of His body, [fn] of His flesh and of His bones.

Simplified Cowboy Version
And we ride for his outfit.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
because we are members of His body.

Legacy Standard Bible
because we are members of His body.

Contextual Overview

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 sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. ²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: ³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ephesians 1:23, Genesis 2:23, Romans 12:5, 1 Corinthians 6:15, 1 Corinthians 12:12-27, Colossians 2:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:14 - art my Judges 9:2 - your bone 2 Samuel 5:1 - we 2 Samuel 19:12 - my bones 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Behold Matthew 25:40 - ye have done it unto me John 2:1 - a marriage John 17:26 - that Acts 9:4 - why 1 Corinthians 6:17 - General 1 Corinthians 12:27 - General Galatians 3:16 - which Ephesians 3:6 - the same Ephesians 4:4 - one body Ephesians 4:25 - for Revelation 21:2 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we are members of his body,.... Not of his natural body, for this would make Christ's human nature monstrous; Christ, as man, is of our flesh and of our bones, or a partaker of the same flesh and blood with us; or otherwise, his incarnation would have been of no service to us; and had our human nature been from Christ, it would not have been corrupted; but our bodies, flesh, and bones, are from the first, and not the second Adam, and so corrupt and sinful; Christ indeed, as God, is the former of all human nature, and, as man, was set up in God's thoughts as the pattern of it; but the apostle is here speaking of the saints, not as men, but as Christians, as new creatures in Christ; and of what is peculiar to them; and therefore this must be understood of Christ's mystical body the church; which is his by the Father's gift, and his own purchase; and of which he is the head, and which is united to him; now of this saints are members; see Romans 12:5.

Of his flesh and of his bones: for so the church may be called, his own flesh, his flesh and bones, on account of the marriage relation she stands in to him, and that spiritual union there is between them, which these phrases are expressive of; and which the near relation of man and wife is an emblem of; these words are wanting in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Ethiopic version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For we are members of his body - Of the body of Christ; see 1 Corinthians 11:3, note; 1 Corinthians 12:27, note; John 15:1-6, notes, and Ephesians 1:23, note. The idea here is, that there is a close and intimate union between the Christian and the Saviour - a union so intimate that they may be spoken of as “one”.

Of his flesh, and of his bones - There is an allusion here evidently to the language which Adam used respecting Eve. “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh;” Genesis 2:23. It is language which is employed to denote the closeness of the marriage relation, and which Paul applies to the connection between Christ and his people. Of course, it cannot be understood “literally.” It is not true literally that our bones are a part of the bones of Christ, or our flesh of his flesh; nor should language ever be used that would imply a miraculous union. It is not a physical union, but a union of attachment; of feeling; of love. If we avoid the notion of a “physical” union, however, it is scarcely possible to use too strong language in describing the union of believers with the Lord Jesus. The Scriptures make use of language which is stronger than that employed to describe any other connection; and there is no union of affection so powerful as that which binds the Christian to the Saviour. So strong is it, that he is willing for it to forsake father, mother, and home; to leave his country, and to abandon his possessions; to go to distant lands and dwell among barbarians to make the Redeemer known; or to go to the cross or the stake from simple love to the Saviour. Account for it as people may, there has been manifested on earth nowhere else so strong an attachment as that which binds the Christian to the cross. It is stronger love that that which a man has for his own flesh and bones; for it makes him willing that his flesh should be consumed by fire, or his bones broken on the wheel rather than deny him. Can the infidel account for this strength of attachment on any other principle than that it has a divine origin?

(See the supplementary note, Romans 8:10, on the union between Christ and his people, in which it is shown that a mere union of feeling and love is far beneath the truth.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. 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 Saviour 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.