Ephesians 5:29

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For no one ever yet hated his own body. But every one feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the Church;

Cross References

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not came!

Matthew 6:26

Look at the wild birds--they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! And are not you more precious than they?

Romans 1:31

They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity.

Ephesians 5:28

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

Ephesians 5:30

For we are members of his Body.

Ephesians 5:31

'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife shall become one.'