Ephesians 5:29

Tree of Life Version

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it—just as Messiah also does His community,

Cross References

Genesis 2:23

Then the man said, “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one is called woman, for from man was taken this one.”

Proverbs 11:17

A kind man does his own soul good, but a cruel man harms his own flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

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

Isaiah 40:11

Like a shepherd, He tends His flock. He gathers the lambs in His arms carries them in his bosom, and gently guides nursing ewes.

Ezekiel 34:27

The tree of the field will yield its fruit. The ground will yield its produce. They will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Adonai, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I longed to gather 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. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Romans 1:31

They are foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of His body.

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.”