Pro 5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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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}
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet {is} she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
A garden inclosed {is} my sister, {my} spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. {inclosed: Heb. barred} {shut up: Heb. barred}
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.
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: {but} he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. {neither...: Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him}
Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet {is} she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac {was} sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters. {more: Heb. yet}
But the poor {man} had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. {meat: Heb. morsel}