Ephesians 5:29

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For no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

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  • Prov 11:17 : 17 A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel person brings trouble to his own flesh.
  • Eccl 4:5 : 5 The fool folds his hands and ruins himself.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.
  • Ezek 34:14-15 : 14 I will feed them in good pasture, and their grazing land will be on the high mountains of Israel. There they will lie down in a pleasant grazing land and feed in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel. 15 I Myself will tend My flock and cause them to lie down, declares the Lord GOD.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • John 6:50-58 : 50 But this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, they will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52 Then the Jews argued sharply among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' 53 Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.' 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
  • Ezek 34:27 : 27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the land will produce its crops. They will live securely on their land and know that I am the LORD when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.

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  • Eph 5:22-28
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    22Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

    24As the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

    26to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing of water through the word,

    27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

    28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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

    31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great—but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

    33However, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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

    3The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

    4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

    5Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5And he said, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23The man said, 'This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called "woman," for she was taken out of man.'

    24For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

    16Or do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

    17But whoever is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

    18Flee from sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside the body, but the one who sins sexually sins against their own body.

    19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    7'For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,'

    8'and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one.'

    9'Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.'

  • 1 Cor 7:33-35
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    33But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife.

    34And his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs. Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.

    35I am saying this for your benefit, not to restrict you, but so that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.

  • Prov 5:18-19
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    18May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

    19A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, and may you always be captivated by her love.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as if they do not.

  • Deut 28:54
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    54Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive.

  • 1 Cor 12:24-25
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    24whereas our presentable parts have no need of it. But God has composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,

    25so that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

  • Eph 4:15-16
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    15But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ.

    16From him the whole body, being joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work.

  • 1 Thess 4:4-5
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    4That each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

    5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Rom 12:5
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    5so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

  • Eph 1:23
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    23which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another as brothers and sisters, be tenderhearted and humble.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For in this way, in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, submitting to their own husbands.