Proverbs 5:18

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
  • Song 4:12 : 12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
  • Song 4:15 : 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
  • Mal 2:14-15 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 5:19-20
    2 verses
    88%

    19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

    20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 5:15-17
    3 verses
    81%

    15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

    16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

    17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

  • Eccl 9:8-9
    2 verses
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    8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

    9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

  • 6 Forsake her not, and she shall eserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  • 5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

  • 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

  • 12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

  • 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

  • Eccl 11:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

    10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

  • Prov 6:24-25
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    73%

    24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

  • 22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

  • 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

  • 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

  • Mal 2:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

    15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

  • 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    72%

    8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

    9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    72%

    17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

  • 14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a udent wife is from the LORD.

  • Song 4:9-10
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    72%

    9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

    10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

  • 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • Prov 4:8-9
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    8 Exalt her, and she shall omote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

    9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

  • 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

  • 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

  • 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

  • 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

  • 5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

  • 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

  • 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

  • 5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

  • 9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

  • 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

  • 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

  • 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

  • 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

  • 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

  • 7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.