Ephesians 5:29

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

Cross References

Ephesians 5:31

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh, saying:

Proverbs 11:17

A merciful man doth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel casteth off even his own kindred.

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather together the lambs with his arm and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

Romans 1:31

Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

Ezekiel 34:27

And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be in their land without fear: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have broken the bonds of their yoke, and shall have delivered them out of the hand of those that rule over them.

Genesis 2:23

And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Matthew 6:26

Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Ephesians 5:28

So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

Ephesians 5:30

Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.