Ephesians 5:29

Overview - Ephesians 5
After general exhortations to love;
to flee fornication;
and all uncleanness;
not to converse with the wicked;
15 to walk warily;
18 and to be filled with the Spirit;
22 he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands;
25 and husbands ought to love their wives,
32 even as Christ does his church.
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Ephesians 5:29  (King James Version)
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
 


hated
31 ; Proverbs 11:17 ; Ecclesiastes 4:5 ; Romans 1:31

nourisheth
Isaiah 40:11 ; Ezekiel 34:14 Ezekiel 34:15 Ezekiel 34:27 ; Matthew 23:37 ; John 6:50-58