Proverbs 18:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

Proverbs 18:22 Cross References

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 29:28

Jacob did so and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 3:4

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

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that are given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Ruth 4:10

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance, in order that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his kindred and from the gate of his native place; today you are witnesses.”