Proverbs 18:22

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 2:18

And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent; 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

Then Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. So he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also.

Proverbs 12:4

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 19:14

Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 3:4

And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the Lord;

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Ruth 4:10

Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from his position at the gate. You are witnesses this day.”