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Ephesians 5:30–31
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Ephesians 5:30
30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 5:31
31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
31For this cause shall a man leaue his father and mother, and shall be ioyned vnto his wife, and they two shalbe one flesh.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ephesians 5:30
Limbs or subordinate parts of bodies; individual constituents belonging to larger bodies.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A physical body; a corpse; or an organized whole composed of members, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Ephesians 5:31
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
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A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To depart from, abandon, or leave behind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A female parent; figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Added; united; set or fastened together; associated; confederated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 30
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Open the full verse study15Know 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.
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Open the full verse study12For 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.
13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14For the body is not one member, but many.
15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
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Open the full verse study5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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Open the full verse study23And 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.
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Open the full verse study23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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Open the full verse study19And 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.
From verse 31
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Open the full verse study24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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Open the full verse study5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
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Open the full verse study7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
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Open the full verse study16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
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