Proverbs 5:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 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.
  • Song 4:12 : 12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
  • Song 4:15 : 15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved
  • Mal 2:14-15 : 14 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. 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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    19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

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  • Prov 5:15-17
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    15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

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  • Eccl 9:8-9
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  • Prov 4:6
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  • Isa 62:5
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    5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

  • Ps 128:3
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    3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

  • Song 4:12
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    12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

  • Song 4:15
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  • Eccl 11:9-10
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    9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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  • Prov 6:24-25
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    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

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    22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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    18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

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    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved

  • Mal 2:14-15
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    14 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.

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    17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

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  • Prov 19:14
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    25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

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