Proverbs 19:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ House and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but a wise, understanding, and prudent wife is from the Lord. [Prov. 18:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from one’s ancestors, but an insightful wife is from the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ A house and its riches are given by parents. But a prudent wife is particularly from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14 Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

2 Corinthians 12:14

Here I am, ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a burden because I do not want what is yours but you, for children ought not to save up for their parents but parents for their children.

Deuteronomy 21:16

then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he is not permitted to treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the firstborn.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 24:44

and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also”—let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. The woman was clever and beautiful, but the man was surly and mean; he was a Calebite.