Ephesians 5:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.”
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“Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”
King James Version · Public Domain“for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ephesians 5:29 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 11:17A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.
- Ecclesiastes 4:5The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
- Isaiah 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
- Ezekiel 34:14I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
- Ezekiel 34:27The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.
- Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- John 6:50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
- Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
- Ephesians 5:31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
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