Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
30Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:17A merciful man doth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel casteth off even his own kindred.
Isaiah 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.
Ezekiel 34:27And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be in their land without fear: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have broken the bonds of their yoke, and shall have delivered them out of the hand of those that rule over them.
John 6:50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.
Ephesians 5:31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in 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 →