Ephesians 5:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

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  • Prov 11:17 : 17 The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.
  • Eccl 4:5 : 5 The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
  • Ezek 34:14-15 : 14 I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
  • John 6:50-58 : 50 The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death. 51 I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world. 52 Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food? 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you. 54 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day. 55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him. 57 As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
  • Ezek 34:27 : 27 And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.

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    22Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

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

    24And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

    25Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

    26So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

    27And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

    28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

  • Eph 5:30-33
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    30Because we are parts of his body.

    31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

    33But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

    5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

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

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    18Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
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    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

    17But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

    18Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

    19Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

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    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

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    33But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

    34And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

    35Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

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    2And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

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    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

    19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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    29But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

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    54That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

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    24But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

    25So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.

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    15But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

    16Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

  • 1 Thess 4:4-5
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    4So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

    5Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

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    5So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

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    5(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

  • Eph 1:23
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    23Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

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    16For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

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    5And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands: