Proverbs 18:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²² A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from the  Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² He who finds a [true] wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. [Prov. 19:14; 31:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

²² He who finds a wife finds what is good, gaining favor from the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² He who has found a good wife has found goodness, and he shall draw contentment from the Lord. He who expels a good wife expels goodness. But he who holds on to an adulteress is foolish and impious.

Proverbs 18:22 Cross References

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding  to him.’

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.

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 12:4

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

Proverbs 19:14

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

Proverbs 3:4

Then you will find favour and high regard with God and people.

Proverbs 8:35

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

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.

Hosea 12:12

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Ruth 4:10

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his home town. You are witnesses today.’