Bible Verses About Finding a Wife
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for finding a wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,057 votes, led by Proverbs 18:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Finding a Wife
Proverbs 18:22679 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Psalms 37:4543 votes
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Proverbs 31:10-31486 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 19:14439 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Genesis 2:18407 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Proverbs 12:4352 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40275 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Proverbs 3:5193 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
1 Corinthians 7:2178 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Proverbs 31:10176 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 21:9150 votes
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
1 Peter 3:7138 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Matthew 5:28137 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Ephesians 5:22122 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 2:24119 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Hebrews 13:4118 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
2 Corinthians 6:14115 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Psalms 37:1-40105 votes
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
1 Corinthians 7:3994 votes
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Peter 4:887 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Ephesians 5:2584 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Proverbs 18:1-2482 votes
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Matthew 19:578 votes
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?
Genesis 24:1-6774 votes
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Luke 1:3774 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
What does the Bible say about finding a wife?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:22 on the subject of finding a wife. Across 9,057 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 37:4, Proverbs 31:10-31, Proverbs 19:14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.