Ephesians 5:29

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

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

In Context

28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife — himself he doth love;

30because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:17A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.

Isaiah 40:11As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth [them]: Suckling ones He leadeth.

Ezekiel 34:27And 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.

John 6:50this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.

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;'

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 →

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