Pro 18:22
{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
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House and riches {are} the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife {is} from the LORD.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price {is} far above rubies.
A virtuous woman {is} a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed {is} as rottenness in his bones.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that {is} thy portion in {this} life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. {Live...: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life}
Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
And the LORD God said, {It is} not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. {meet...: Heb. as before him}
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept {sheep}.
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. {obtain: Heb. bring forth}
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him {but} a few days, for the love he had to her.
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. {good...: or, good success}
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's {death}.
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price {is} far above rubies.
And the LORD God said, {It is} not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. {meet...: Heb. as before him}
House and riches {are} the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife {is} from the LORD.
Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. {made: Heb. builded}
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that {is} thy portion in {this} life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. {Live...: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life}
And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: {let} the same {be} the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye {are} witnesses this day.
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with {his} wife, it is not good to marry.
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed {be} the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.