Proverbs 5:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:16

And don't be like a stream from which just any woman may take a drink.

Proverbs 5:17

Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water tastes best, and the food you eat in secret tastes best of all.”

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Life is short, and you love your wife, so enjoy being with her. This is what you are supposed to do as you struggle through life on this earth.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My bride, my very own, you are a garden, a fountain closed off to all others.

Song of Solomon 4:15

You are a spring in the garden, a fountain of pure water, and a refreshing stream from Mount Lebanon.

Deuteronomy 24:5

If a man and a woman have been married less than one year, he must not be sent off to war or sent away to do forced labour. He must be allowed to stay home for a year and be happy with his wife.