Ephesians 5:29

Young's Literal Translation 1862

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

Cross References

Genesis 2:23

and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

Proverbs 11:17

A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:

Isaiah 40:11

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth `them': Suckling ones He leadeth.

Ezekiel 34:27

And given hath the tree of the field its fruit, And the land doth give her increase, And they have been on their land confident, And they have known that I `am' Jehovah, In My breaking the bands of their yoke, And I have delivered them from the hand of those laying service on them.

Matthew 23:37

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

Matthew 6:26

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

Romans 1:31

unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

Ephesians 5:28

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

Ephesians 5:30

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

Ephesians 5:31

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'