Proverbs 19:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers: 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14 Cross References

Genesis 24:44

and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed for my master's son.

Genesis 24:7

The LORD, the God of heaven, that took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and that spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 18:22

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

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.

2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Deuteronomy 21:16

then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, which is the firstborn:

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spake unto Moses: and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.