Ephesians 5:29

World English Bible (2000)

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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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 ruins himself.
  • 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. He will gently lead those who have their young.
  • Ezek 34:14-15 : 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and on 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 on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  • John 6:50-58 : 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. 54 He who 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 lives in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."
  • Ezek 34:27 : 27 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 Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

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    22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

    25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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 assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

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

    32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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    2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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    19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

    16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

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

    18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

    19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

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    7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

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

    9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

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    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

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

    16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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    16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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