Proverbs 18:22

Bible in Basic English 1965

Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 2:18

And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

Genesis 24:67

And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.

Genesis 29:28

And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.

Proverbs 12:4

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

Proverbs 3:4

So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

Ruth 4:10

And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.