Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever yet hated his awne flesshe: but norissheth and cherisseth it even as the lorde doth the congregacion.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
28So ought men to love their wyves as their awne bodyes. He that loveth his wyfe loveth him sylfe.
30For we are members of his body of his flesshe and of his bones.
Cross References
John 6:50This is that breed which cometh from heaven that he which eateth of it shuld also not dye.
Ephesians 5:31For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cotinue with his wyfe and two shalbe made one flesshe.
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 →