Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Proverbs 18:22 - Revised Standard Version He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor 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 that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Then Isaac brought her into the tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to wife.
A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which 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.
(Jacob fled to the land of Aram, there Israel did service for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep.)
But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Also Ruth the Moabitess, 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 brethren and from the gate of his native place; you are witnesses this day.”