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Source language
Original Greek   
τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο μέγα ἐστίν, ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω εἰς Χριστὸν καὶ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν.
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
to musterion touto mega estin, ego de lego eis Khriston kai eis ten ekklesian.

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
sacramentum hoc magnum est ego autem dico in Christo et in ecclesia

King James Variants
American King James Version   
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Authorized (King James) Version   
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
New King James Version   
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
21st Century King James Version   
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about The Messiah and about his church.
Darby Bible Translation   
This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
God's Word   
This is a great mystery. (I'm talking about Christ's relationship to the church.)
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
International Standard Version   
This is a great secret, but I am talking about the Messiah and the church.
NET Bible   
This mystery is great--but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
New American Standard Bible   
This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
New International Version   
This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church.
New Living Translation   
This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
Webster's Bible Translation   
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Weymouth New Testament   
That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.
The World English Bible   
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
EasyEnglish Bible   
This is God's secret and it is difficult to understand. But I am saying that it teaches us about Christ and the church.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;
New Life Version   
This is hard to understand, but it shows that the church is the body of Christ.
Revised Geneva Translation   
This is a great secret. But I speak concerning Christ and concerning the church.
The Voice Bible   
There is a great mystery reflected in this Scripture, and I say that it has to do with the marriage of the Anointed One and the church.
Living Bible   
I know this is hard to understand, but it is an illustration of the way we are parts of the body of Christ.
New Catholic Bible   
This is a great mystery. Here I am applying it to Christ and the Church.
Legacy Standard Bible   
This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}
Christian Standard Bible   
This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church.
New Century Version   
That secret is very important—I am talking about Christ and the church.
The Message   
No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh.” This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
This is a great mystery, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
· This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and about the church.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.
New Matthew Bible   
This is a great mystery, but I speak as between Christ and the congregation.
Good News Translation®   
There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church.
Wycliffe Bible   
This sacrament is great; yea, I say in Christ, and in the church.
New Testament for Everyone   
The hidden meaning in this saying is very deep; but I am reading it as referring to the Messiah and the church.
Contemporary English Version   
This is a great mystery, but I understand it to mean Christ and his church.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the church;
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Men ought to give their wives the love they naturally have for their own bodies. The love a man gives his wife is the extending of his love for himself to enfold her. Nobody ever hates or neglects his own body; he feeds and looks after it. And that is what Christ does for his body, the Church. And we are all members of that body, we are his flesh and blood! ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’. The marriage relationship is doubtless a great mystery, but I am speaking of something deeper still—the marriage of Christ and his Church. In practice what I have said amounts to this: let every one of you who is a husband love his wife as he loves himself; let the wife reverence her husband.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Marriage is a significant allegory, and I’m applying it to Christ and the church.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
This mystery [of two becoming one] is great; but I am speaking with reference to [the relationship of] Christ and the church.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.
New American Standard Bible   
This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
The Expanded Bible   
This ·secret [mystery] is ·very important [or great; profound]—I am talking about Christ and the church.
Tree of Life Version   
This mystery is great—but I am talking about Messiah and His community.
Revised Standard Version   
This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
New International Reader's Version   
That is a deep mystery. But I’m talking about Christ and the church.
BRG Bible   
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Complete Jewish Bible   
There is profound truth hidden here, which I say concerns the Messiah and the Messianic Community.
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
This is a wonderful plan of God. I am speaking here of the plan about Christ and the church people.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
This is a sod hagadol, but I am referring to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the Brit Chadasha Kehillah. [SHIR HASHIRIM 3:6-4:12; BERESHIS 2:23,24; 24:1-7; 41:45; 47:18; SHEMOT 2:21; RUTH 1:16-17; 3:9]
Names of God Bible   
This is a great mystery. (I’m talking about Christ’s relationship to the church.)
Modern English Version   
This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
Easy-to-Read Version   
That secret truth is very important—I am talking about Christ and the church.
International Children’s Bible   
That secret truth is very important—I am talking about Christ and the church.
Lexham English Bible   
(This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)
New International Version - UK   
This is a profound mystery – but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and with reference to the church.