Ephesians 5:29

American Standard Version (1901)

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

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  • Prov 11:17 : 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
  • Eccl 4:5 : 5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those that have their young.
  • Ezek 34:14-15 : 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
  • John 6:50-58 : 50 This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. 54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
  • Ezek 34:27 : 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them.

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    22 Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.

    24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.

    25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

    26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

    27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

  • Eph 5:30-33
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    30 because we are members of his body.

    31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

    32 This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

    33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3 Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

    5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

    6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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    23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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    18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
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    15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

    17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

    18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

    19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

    8 and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

    9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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    33 but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

    34 and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

    35 And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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    2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

  • Prov 5:18-19
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    18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

    19 [ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

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    29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

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    54 The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining;

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    24 whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked;

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    15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;

    16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

  • 1 Thess 4:4-5
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    4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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    5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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    23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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    16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

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    14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

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    5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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