Proverbs 5:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:16

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

Proverbs 9:17

Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

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.

Song of Solomon 4:12

A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

Song of Solomon 4:15

You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

Deuteronomy 24:5

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.