Ephesians 5:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:

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  • Prov 11:17 : 17 The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
  • Eccl 4:5 : 5 The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
  • Ezek 34:14-15 : 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a rich pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord GOD.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I 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 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore argued among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except 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 him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he who eats me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers ate manna, and are dead: he who eats of this bread shall live forever.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful:
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined 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 safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those who used them.

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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 also the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

    24Therefore just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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

    26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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

    28So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

  • Eph 5:30-33
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    30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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

    32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

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

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    5And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

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    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

    19What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

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    7For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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    33But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

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    15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ:

    16From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

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