He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
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.
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”
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.
Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
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