Proverbs 18:22

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 2:18

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for[5] him."

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and 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 his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Proverbs 12:4

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

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Proverbs 3:4

So you will find favor and good success[1] 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

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 portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Hosea 12:12

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Ruth 4:10

Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day."