Ephesians 5:29

English Majority Text Version

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Lord does the church.

Cross References

Matthew 23:37

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Matthew 6:26

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

Romans 1:31

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Ephesians 5:28

So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he that loves his own wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:30

For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

Ephesians 5:31

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