Ephesians 5:30

New Century Version

because we are parts of his body.

Cross References

Genesis 2:23

And the man said, “Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body. I will call her ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.”

Romans 12:5

In the same way, we are many, but in Christ we are all one body. Each one is a part of that body, and each part belongs to all the other parts.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take the parts of Christ and join them to a prostitute!

Ephesians 1:23

which is Christ’s body. The church is filled with Christ, and Christ fills everything in every way.

Ephesians 5:29

No one ever hates his own body, but feeds and takes care of it. And that is what Christ does for the church,

Colossians 2:19

They do not hold tightly to Christ, the head. It is from him that all the parts of the body are cared for and held together. So it grows in the way God wants it to grow.