Cross references
Ephesians 5:29
Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
Ephesians 5:29 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 34:14–15 (5 votes) and Ephesians 5:31 (5 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 2 to Colossians 3.
Which verses does Ephesians 5:29 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ezekiel 34:14–155 votes
I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ephesians 5:315 votes
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
- Proverbs 11:174 votes
A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.
- Ecclesiastes 4:54 votes
The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
- John 6:50–584 votes
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.” …
- Isaiah 40:113 votes
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
- Matthew 23:372 votes
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- Ezekiel 34:271 vote
The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.
- Romans 1:311 vote
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Which verses point to Ephesians 5:29?
The 10 strongest of 20.