Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Hated
Nourisheth
Bible References
Hated
Ephesians 5:31
"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."
Romans 1:31
faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity.
Nourisheth
Matthew 23:37
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children to me, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not come!
John 6:50
Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.