Proverbs 18:22

New American Bible - revised edition

To find a wife is to find happiness, a favor granted by the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 2:18

The Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him.

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of his mother Sarah. He took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her and found solace after the death of his mother.

Genesis 29:28

Jacob did so. He finished the bridal week for the one, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.

Proverbs 12:4

A woman of worth is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful one is like rot in his bones.

Proverbs 19:14

Home and possessions are an inheritance from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 3:4

Then will you win favor and esteem before God and human beings.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life, and wins favor from the Lord;

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun.

Hosea 12:12

In Gilead is falsehood, they have come to nothing; in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, But their altars are like heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

1 Corinthians 7:2

but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Ruth 4:10

I also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, as my wife, in order to raise up a family for her late husband on his estate, so that the name of the deceased may not perish from his people and his place. Do you witness this today?”