Ephesians 5:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:17 : 17 A kind person benefits himself, but a cruel person brings himself trouble.
  • Eccl 4:5 : 5 The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.
  • Ezek 34:14-15 : 14 In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
  • John 6:50-58 : 50 This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will 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 earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Eph 5:22-28
    7 verses
    90%

    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).

    24But as 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 for her

    26to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

    27so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a 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
    4 verses
    84%

    30because we are members of his body.

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

    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless, 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
    4 verses
    74%

    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

    3A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

    5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Matt 19:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with 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
    2 verses
    73%

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18Exhortation to Households Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
    5 verses
    72%

    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

    16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

    17But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

    18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.

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

  • Mark 10:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

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

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

  • 1 Cor 7:33-35
    3 verses
    70%

    33But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

    34and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

    35I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

  • Eph 5:2
    69%

    2and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

  • Prov 5:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–

    19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    68%

    29And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

  • Deut 28:54
    68%

    54The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

  • 1 Cor 12:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

    25so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

  • Eph 4:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

    16From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.

  • 1 Thess 4:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

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

  • Rom 12:5
    68%

    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
    68%

    5But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

  • Eph 1:23
    68%

    23Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    67%

    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

  • 1 Cor 7:14
    67%

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Pet 3:8
    67%

    8Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    67%

    5For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,