Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the human to be alone; I will make a helper suited to him.’

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In The King James Version

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

In Context

17except from the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil; from this you must not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will surely die.’

19So out of the ground the Lord God formed all the wild beasts and birds, and made them come to the human to see what he would call them. Whatever he called each living creature, that was its name.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:12The man answered, ‘The woman you placed beside me, she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate.’

1 Corinthians 7:36If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, he should act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong – let the marriage take place.

1 Timothy 2:11They must learn, listening quietly to their teachers and showing them all deference.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:17-18

The Tree of Knowledge Prohibited. ( b. c. 4004.) 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Observe here, I. God's authority over man, as a creature that had reason and freedom of will. The Lord God commanded the man, who stood now as a public person, the father and representative of all mankind, to receive law, as he… Read the whole commentary →

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