OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 19:14

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House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

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Verse 14. Properly. Septuagint “fitted by.” Bible.—Hence the Fathers dissuade marrying with infidels. Saint Ambrose in Lu. xvi.—All good comes from God.

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