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becauseὅτιwe areἐσμὲνmembersμέληof his body.τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ
Ephesians 5:30
Study it in the app“because we are members of his body.”
Paul holds up the Messiah's self-giving love as the husband's modelDating and Marriage
With the Greek beneath
Ephesians 5:30, word by word
- we areἐσμὲνesmen
be
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “esmen” appears- membersμέληmelē
body member
Each believer, as part of the Messiah's body.
Where else “melē” appears- of his bodyσώματοςsōmatos
body
The person in his physical part, living or dead.
Where else “sōmatos” appears
Translation note· on the manuscripts
Many manuscripts add “of his flesh and of his bones.”
The context
29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Messiah does the assembly,
30 · This verse (above)
31For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
To study Ephesians 5 in a group
1. What it says
What does Paul say about walking in love and walking as children of light (v. 1-2, 8-9)?
2. What it means
Paul links the Messiah's love for the assembly with a husband's love for his wife (v. 25-29). What does the text say that love is like?
3. How I live it
Paul invites us to give thanks always and to speak with psalms and songs (v. 19-20). What simple habit could help you do that?