Proverbs 18:22

Modern English Version

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are the inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous wife is the crown of her husband, but a wife who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun, because that is your reward in life and for your toil, which you perform under the sun.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,

Proverbs 3:4

So will you find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

Genesis 24:67

So Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 29:28

Jacob did so and completed her week. Then Laban gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also.

Ruth 4:10

Moreover I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, in order to preserve the name of the deceased man for his inheritance, so that his name will not be cut off from among his brothers or from his town. You are witnesses this day.”