"For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." — Ephesians 5:30

Ephesians 5:30 · KJV

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

— Ephesians 5:30

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Ephesians 5 — Context

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:15

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make {them} the members of an harlot? God forbid.

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also {is} Christ.

Romans 12:5

So we, {being} many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Genesis 2:23

And Adam said, This {is} now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. {Woman: Heb. Isha} {Man: Heb. Ish}

Ephesians 1:23

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Colossians 2:19

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.