Ephesians 5:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ For no one ever hates his own flesh, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Common English Bible

²⁹ No one ever hates his own body, but feeds it and takes care of it just like Christ does for the church

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.

Ephesians 5:29 Cross References

Ephesians 5:31

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Ecclesiastes 4:5

Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.

Proverbs 11:17

Those who are kind reward themselves, but the cruel do themselves harm.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom and gently lead the mother sheep.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Romans 1:31

foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Ezekiel 34:27

The trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase. They shall be secure on their soil, and they shall know that I am the Lord when I break the bars of their yoke and save them from the hands of those who enslaved them.

Genesis 2:23

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.