Proverbs 5:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
  • Song 4:12 : 12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
  • Song 4:15 : 15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.
  • Mal 2:14-15 : 14 But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word. 15 ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

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    19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 5:15-17
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    81%

    15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

    16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

    17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

  • Eccl 9:8-9
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    8 Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

    9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Isa 62:5
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    5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

  • Ps 128:3
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    3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

  • Song 4:12
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    12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

  • Song 4:15
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    15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

  • Eccl 11:9-10
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    9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

    10 So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

  • Prov 6:24-25
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    73%

    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

  • Prov 7:18
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    18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

  • Song 5:1
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    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

  • Mal 2:14-15
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    14 But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

    15 ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

  • Prov 2:17
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    17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • Prov 7:5
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    5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Prov 19:14
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    14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

  • Song 4:9-10
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    9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

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    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

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    8 Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

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    2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

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    14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Prov 23:25
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    25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

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    28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

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    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

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    5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

  • Job 31:10
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    10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

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    5 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

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    9 My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

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    2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

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    6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

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    2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

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    5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

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    24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

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    5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

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    7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.