Ephesians 5:29 Cross References
Ephesians 5:29
29: No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church.
Ecclesiastes 4:5
- Foolish people refuse to work and almost starve.
Proverbs 11:17
- Your own soul is nourished when you are kind, but you destroy yourself when you are cruel.
Ezekiel 34:14
- Yes, I will give them good pastureland on the high hills of Israel. There they will lie down in pleasant places and feed in lush mountain pastures.
- I myself will tend my sheep and cause them to lie down in peace, says the Sovereign LORD.
Matthew 23:37
- "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.
Ephesians 5:31
- As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."
Isaiah 40:11
- He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young.
John 6:50
- However, the bread from heaven gives eternal life to everyone who eats it.
- I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; this bread is my flesh, offered so the world may live."
- Then the people began arguing with each other about what he meant. "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" they asked.
- So Jesus said again, "I assure you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.
- But those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them at the last day.
Romans 1:31
- They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving.
Ezekiel 34:27
- The orchards and fields of my people will yield bumper crops, and everyone will live in safety. When I have broken their chains of slavery and rescued them from those who enslaved them, then they will know that I am the LORD.