Proverbs 18:22

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

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

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

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

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.