Genesis 2:18
Good News Translation
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him."

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD God said, "It isn't good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable partner for him."

New American Bible
The LORD God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

good.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 3:12 And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Ruth 3:1 After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.

Proverbs 18:22 He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society: . . .

1 Corinthians 7:36 But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry.

I will.

Genesis 3:12 And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

1 Corinthians 11:7-12 The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. . . .

1 Timothy 2:11-13 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. . . .

1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

meet for him.

Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
17But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death. 18And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.19And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:9
For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the man.

Genesis 2:20
And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.

Proverbs 18:22
He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

Genesis 2:17
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