Proverbs 18:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis 24:67

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.

Genesis 29:28

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers: But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Proverbs 3:4

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

Proverbs 8:35

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

Ecclesiastes 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 life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Ruth 4:10

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.