Proverbs 18:22

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

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  • Prov 19:14 : 14 ¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
  • Prov 12:4 : 4 ¶ A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
  • Prov 31:10-31 : 10 ¶ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. 17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. 18 She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night. 19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. 20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet. 22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple. 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. 24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. 25 Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness. 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her. 29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. 30 Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 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.
  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 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].
  • Gen 2:18 : 18 ¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
  • Prov 5:15-23 : 15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
  • Gen 29:20-21 : 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her. 21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
  • Gen 29:28 : 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
  • Prov 3:4 : 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

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    35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

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    13¶ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

    14¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.

  • Prov 31:10-12
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    10¶ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies.

    11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

    12She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

  • Prov 18:21
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    21¶ Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

  • Prov 3:16-18
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    16Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honour.

    17Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

    18She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

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    4So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

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    20¶ He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy [is] he.

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  • Prov 31:28-31
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    28Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.

    29Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

    30Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

    31Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

  • Eccl 7:26-28
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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

    27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:

    28Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

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    1¶ A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches, [and] loving favour rather than silver and gold.

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    9Live 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.

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  • Prov 21:9
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  • 1 Cor 7:38
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  • Prov 31:23
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  • Gen 2:24
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    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Gen 2:18
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