Verse 18

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'

Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 4:9-9 : 9 The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up! 11 Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat? 12 And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.
  • 1 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, 8 for a man is not of a woman, but a woman `is' of a man, 9 for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man; 10 because of this the woman ought to have `a token of' authority upon the head, because of the messengers; 11 but neither `is' a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord, 12 for as the woman `is' of the man, so also the man `is' through the woman, and the all things `are' of God.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
  • Gen 3:12 : 12 and the man saith, `The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.'
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.
  • 1 Tim 2:11-13 : 11 Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, 12 and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness, 13 for Adam was first formed, then Eve,
  • 1 Cor 7:36 : 36 and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.
  • Ruth 3:1 : 1 And Naomi her mother-in-law saith to her, `My daughter, do not I seek for thee rest, that it may be well with thee?
  • Prov 18:22 : 22 `Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.