Ephesians 5:29

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

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  • Prov 11:17 : 17 A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.
  • Eccl 4:5 : 5 The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth `them': Suckling ones He leadeth.
  • Ezek 34:14-15 : 14 With good pasture I do feed them, And on mountains of the high place of Israel is their habitation, There do they lie down in a good habitation, And fat pastures they enjoy on mountains of Israel. 15 I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.
  • John 6:50-58 : 50 this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. 51 `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.' 52 The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us `his' flesh to eat?' 53 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; 54 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; 55 for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; 56 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him. 57 `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me; 58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'
  • Ezek 34:27 : 27 And given hath the tree of the field its fruit, And the land doth give her increase, And they have been on their land confident, And they have known that I `am' Jehovah, In My breaking the bands of their yoke, And I have delivered them from the hand of those laying service on them.

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  • Eph 5:22-28
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    22The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

    24but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

    25The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

    26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

    27that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

    28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

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

    31`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

    32this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

    33but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
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    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

    3to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

    4the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

    5Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

    6so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

  • Gen 2:23-24
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    23and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

    24therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

    19the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
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    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

    16have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

    17And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

    18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

    19Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    7on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

    8and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

    9what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

  • 1 Cor 7:33-35
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    33and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

    34The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

    35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

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    2and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

  • Prov 5:18-19
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

    19A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

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    29And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

  • Deut 28:54
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    54`The man who is tender in thee, and who `is' very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,

  • 1 Cor 12:24-25
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    24and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

    25that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

  • Eph 4:15-16
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    15and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

    16from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

  • 1 Thess 4:4-5
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    4that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • Rom 12:5
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    5so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

  • Eph 1:23
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    23which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

  • 1 Cor 7:14
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    14for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,