Ephesians 5:29

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

for then no one hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes her, even as also the Lord the Assembly.

Cross References

Genesis 2:23

And the man said, This now, at last, is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. For she shall be called Woman, because this has been taken out of man.

Proverbs 11:17

A merciful man does good to his own soul, but the cruel one troubles his own flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

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

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather lambs with His arm; and bear them in His bosom; those with young He will lead;

Ezekiel 34:27

And the tree of the field shall give its fruit, and the earth shall give its increase. And they shall be securely on their land. And they shall know that I am Jehovah when I have broken the staffs of their yoke, and have rescued them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her. How often I desired to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her chicks under her wings! And you did not desire it.

Matthew 6:26

Observe the birds of the heaven, that they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor do they gather into granaries, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Do you not rather excel them?

Romans 1:31

without understanding, untrustworthy ones, without affection, implacable ones, unmerciful,

Ephesians 5:28

So, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies, (he loving his 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 shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:24