Ephesians 5:29

A Conservative Version

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church,

Cross References

Ephesians 5:31

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

Proverbs 11:17

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

Romans 1:31

without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.

Ezekiel 34:27

And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am LORD when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them

Genesis 2:23

And the man 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.

Matthew 6:26

Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they?

Ephesians 5:28

So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.