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GOD's Choice
God has chosen/created/appointed a spouse for you
- May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’–let her be the one You have chosen for your servant Isaac. Genesis 24:14 NIV
- let her be the one the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.’ Genesis 24:44 NIV
- And the servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Genesis 24:5 NKJV
Own culture
- I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.” Genesis 24:3-4 NIV
- my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’ Genesis 24:37-38 NIV
GOD Brings
God brings spouse to you i.e. you don’t have to go searching
- Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NKJV
- Isaac went out to bow down [in prayer] in the field in the [early] evening; he raised his eyes and looked, and camels were coming. Rebekah also raised her eyes and looked, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from her camel…Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah [in marriage], and she became his wife Genesis 24:63-64,67 AMP
Read: Wisely choosing a life partner… By Dr. Vijay Anand Ismavel MS, MCh
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GOD's Gift
- House and wealth are the inheritance from fathers, But a wise, understanding, and sensible wife is [a gift and blessing] from the LORD. Proverbs 19:14 AMP
Other versions
- House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD. Proverbs 19:14 NASB