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29 To be sure, no one has ever hated his own body, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.[a] 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will be one flesh.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:30 A few witnesses to the text omit of his flesh and of his bones.
  2. Ephesians 5:31 Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5