Ephesians 5:30

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Ephesians 5:28–32 · Berean Standard Bible

28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

29 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

30 For we are members of His body.

31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

32 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

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Ephesians 1:23

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

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.”

Romans 12:5

so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.

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!

1 Corinthians 12:12

The 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.

1 Corinthians 12:13

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

1 Corinthians 12:14

For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.

1 Corinthians 12:15

If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12:16

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12:17

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

1 Corinthians 12:18

But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.

1 Corinthians 12:19

If they were all one part, where would the body be?

1 Corinthians 12:20

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

1 Corinthians 12:21

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”

1 Corinthians 12:22

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

1 Corinthians 12:23

and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,

1 Corinthians 12:24

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

1 Corinthians 12:25

so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.

1 Corinthians 12:26

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.

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.