Ephesians 5:29

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

Cross References

Genesis 2:23

The man said, *This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.*

Proverbs 11:17

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

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

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. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Ezekiel 34:27

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 the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

Matthew 23:37

*Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Matthew 6:26

See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?

Romans 1:31

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Ephesians 5:28

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:30

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

Ephesians 5:31

*For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.*