Proverbs 5:18

New Century Version

Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. She gives you joy, as your fountain gives you water.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:16

Don’t pour your water in the streets; don’t give your love to just any woman.

Proverbs 5:17

These things are yours alone and shouldn’t be shared with strangers.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen water is sweeter, and food eaten in secret tastes better.”

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love. Enjoy all the useless days of this useless life God has given you here on earth, because it is all you have. So enjoy the work you do here on earth.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My sister, my bride, you are like a garden locked up, like a walled-in spring, a closed-up fountain.

Song of Solomon 4:15

You are like a garden fountain— a well of fresh water flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.

Deuteronomy 24:5

A man who has just married must not be sent to war or be given any other duty. He should be free to stay home for a year to make his new wife happy.