30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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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.
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. …
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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.
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-33)Here the apostle begins his exhortation to the discharge of relative duties. As a general foundation for these duties, he lays down that rule Eph. 5:21. There is a mutual submission that Christians owe one to another, condescending to bear one another’s burdens: not advancing themselves above others, nor domineering over one another and giving laws to one another. Paul was an example of this truly…
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