Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.’
Proverbs 18:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favour of the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He who finds a [true] wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. [Prov. 19:14; 31:10.] American Standard Version (1901) Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah. Common English Bible He who finds a wife finds what is good, gaining favor from the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version He who has found a good wife has found goodness, and he shall draw contentment from the Lord. He who expels a good wife expels goodness. But he who holds on to an adulteress is foolish and impious. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked. |
Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.’
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a wife who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.
A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
For the one who finds me finds life and obtains favour from the Lord,
Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.
Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.
But because sexual immorality is so common, , each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his home town. You are witnesses today.’