Ephesians 5:29

Weymouth NT

For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

Cross References

Matthew 23:37

»O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children to me, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not come!

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them: are not you of much greater value than they?

Romans 1:31

faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity.

Ephesians 5:28

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

Ephesians 5:31

»For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one.«