Proverbs 19:14

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 24:44

and she says to me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,” let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’

Genesis 24:7

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s family and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He shall send His angel before you and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons’ children, but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 18:22

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

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

2 Corinthians 12:14

I am ready to come to you this third time. And I will not be burdensome to you, for I do not seek what is yours but only you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Deuteronomy 21:16

then it must be, when he gives his sons the inheritance which he has, that he may not make the firstborn son of the loved come before the son of the unloved, who was indeed the firstborn.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land according to all that the Lord had said to Moses. Joshua gave it to Israel as an inheritance according to their allotted portions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.

1 Samuel 25:3

The man’s name was Nabal and the name of his wife Abigail. She was a woman of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was harsh and evil in his actions and he was a Calebite.