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Proverbs 19:14
A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife is from the Lord.
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Proverbs 12:4
A capable wife is her husband’s crown, but a wife who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.
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Proverbs 31:10-31
Who can find a capable wife? She is far more precious than jewels.The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will not lack anything good.She rewards him with good, not evil, all the days of her life.She selects wool and flax and works with willing hands.She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from far away.She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household and portions for her female servants.She evaluates a field and buys it; she plants a vineyard with her earnings.She draws on her strength and reveals that her arms are strong.She sees that her profits are good, and her lamp never goes out at night.She extends her hands to the spinning staff, and her hands hold the spindle.Her hands reach out to the poor, and she extends her hands to the needy.She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all in her household are doubly clothed.She makes her own bed coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.She makes and sells linen garments; she delivers belts to the merchants.Strength and honor are her clothing, and she can laugh at the time to come.She opens her mouth with wisdom and loving instruction is on her tongue.She watches over the activities of her household and is never idle.Her sons rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:“ Many women are capable, but you surpass them all!”Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord will be praised.Give her the reward of her labor, and let her works praise her at the city gates.
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Ecclesiastes 9:9
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.
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Proverbs 5:15-23
Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers.Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.A loving doe, a graceful fawn— let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger?For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, and He considers all his paths.A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity.
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1 Corinthians 7 2
But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
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Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said,“ It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”
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Genesis 24:67
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.
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Genesis 29:20-21
So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.Then Jacob said to Laban,“ Give me my wife, for my time is completed. I want to sleep with her.”
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Proverbs 8:35
For the one who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.
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Genesis 29:28
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
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Proverbs 3:4
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.