Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,
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Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,
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Genesis 29:21
Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
Genesis 29:23
In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.
Deuteronomy 22:13
If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,
Judges 15:1
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
Judges 15:2
Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
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Genesis 29:31
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Luke 14:25
Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
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Exodus 21:10
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
Deuteronomy 5:18
“You shall not commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 20:7
What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Matthew 19:4
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew 19:5
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Mark 10:7
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
Mark 10:8
and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Mark 10:9
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
Titus 2:5
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
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Deuteronomy 22:16
The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.
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Ruth 3:11
Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Proverbs 19:14
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a worthy woman? For her value is far above rubies.
Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
Song of Solomon 6:8
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
Song of Solomon 6:9
My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.
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1 Samuel 1:4
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;
1 Samuel 1:5
but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 1:6
Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 1:7
So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
1 Samuel 1:8
Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
1 Corinthians 7:33
but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
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2 Samuel 19:12
You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
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Esther 5:3
Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
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Psalms 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
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Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
Isaiah 49:26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
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Song of Solomon 7:7
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
Song of Solomon 8:3
His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.
Song of Solomon 8:5
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
Isaiah 54:7
“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.
Isaiah 54:8
In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
Isaiah 54:9
“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Hosea 2:20
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.
Matthew 25:1
“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Revelation 21:2
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:9
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
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Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
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Isaiah 40:11
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
Ezekiel 34:14
I will feed them with good pasture, and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 34:15
I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 34:27
The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
Matthew 23:37
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
John 6:50
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6:52
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
John 6:53
Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.
John 6:54
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me.
John 6:58
This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
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Mark 5:5
Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
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Isaiah 9:19
Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
Matthew 2:23
and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.
John 15:4
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:6
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
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Acts 27:34
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
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Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
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2 Chronicles 16:9
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
Matthew 16:18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
1 Corinthians 6:15
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
Galatians 1:13
For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
Ephesians 1:10
to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.
Ephesians 1:22
He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
Ephesians 1:23
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 3:19
and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
1 Timothy 3:15
but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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Proverbs 5:18
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:19
A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
Malachi 2:13
“This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
Malachi 2:14
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
1 Corinthians 7:11
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:12
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
1 Corinthians 7:13
The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
1 Corinthians 7:15
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
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1 Corinthians 15:39
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
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2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
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Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.
Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29
If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Ephesians 5:21
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
Colossians 2:23
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Colossians 3:11
where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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Acts 7:1
The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
Romans 12:4
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
1 Corinthians 6:4
If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
1 Corinthians 10:32
Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
1 Corinthians 12:28
God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
Ephesians 2:16
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.
Ephesians 3:21
to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Colossians 1:22
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
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Ephesians 6:21
But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.
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Ephesians 6:22
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.
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1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.
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Ruth 3:9
He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”
Psalms 139:21
Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Ecclesiastes 3:8
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Song of Solomon 2:7
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
Isaiah 54:6
For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.
Isaiah 62:4
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
Jeremiah 32:41
Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
Ezekiel 16:8
“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
Hosea 2:19
I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
Zephaniah 3:17
Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Revelation 19:7
Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
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