Ephesians 5:29
For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.
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In Context
28So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
30For we are a part of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:17A merciful man benefits his own soul. But whoever is cruel casts out even his close relatives.
Isaiah 40:11He will pasture his flock like a shepherd. He will gather together the lambs with his arm, and he will lift them up to his bosom, and he himself will carry the very young.
Ezekiel 34:27And the tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the land will yield its crop. And they will be in their own land without fear. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have crushed the chains of their yoke, and when I will have rescued them from the hand of those who rule over them.
John 6:50This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die.
Ephesians 5:31“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.”
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:22-33
Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 61.) 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might… Read the whole commentary →