Ephesians 5:29

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

Proverbs 11:17

A kind man benefits himself,
but a cruel man brings disaster on himself.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his arms
and consumes his own flesh.

Isaiah 40:11

He protects His flock like a shepherd;
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them in the fold of His garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.

I will tend them with good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 34:27

The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. They will know that I am Yahweh when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslave them.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

John 6:50-58

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

Romans 1:31

undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.

Ephesians 5:31

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

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Summary

Ephesians 5:29

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Hated

Nourisheth

General references

Deuteronomy 22:13

Song of Songs 2:6

Bible References

Hated

For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,

and the two will become one flesh.

A kind man benefits himself,
but a cruel man brings disaster on himself.

The fool folds his arms
and consumes his own flesh.

undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving,

and unmerciful.

Nourisheth

He protects His flock like a shepherd;
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them in the fold of His garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

General references

“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

His left hand is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.