Proverbs 18:22

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

²¹ Life and death are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruit. ²² A man who finds a wife finds a good thing
and obtains favor from the Lord. ²³ The poor man pleads,
but the rich one answers roughly.

From the Lord

What is Good

Jehovah

Proverbs 19:14

A house and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a sensible wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 12:4

A capable wife is her husband’s crown,
but a wife who causes shame
is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 8:35

For the one who finds me finds life
and obtains favor from the Lord,

Proverbs 31:10-31

Who can find a capable wife?
She is far more precious than jewels.

Genesis 24:67

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

Genesis 29:20-21

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Genesis 29:28

And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Proverbs 3:4

Then you will find favor and high regard
in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 5:15-23

Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram.
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.