Proverbs 31:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

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  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
  • 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.
  • Ps 116:16 : 16 O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.
  • Prov 31:1 : 1 The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.
  • Song 7:1-9 : 1 How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman: 2 Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine. 3 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth. 4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus: 5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner. 6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight. 7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine. 8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples; 9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
  • Isa 62:4-5 : 4 You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married. 5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

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  • Prov 31:29-31
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    29Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.

    30Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

    31Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Prov 31:10-27
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    82%

    10Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

    11The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.

    12She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

    13She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.

    14She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

    15She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.

    16After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.

    17She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.

    18She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

    19She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.

    20Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.

    21She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.

    22She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.

    23Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

    24She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.

    25Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.

    26Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.

    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • Ps 128:2-4
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    2You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

    3Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

    4See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

  • Prov 4:8-9
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    8Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

    9She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

  • Ps 113:9
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    9He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

  • Prov 3:15-18
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    15She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

    16Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Prov 19:14
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    14House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

  • Prov 12:4
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    4A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Ps 127:3
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    3See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

  • Prov 14:1
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    1Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

  • Prov 23:24-25
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    24The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

    25Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

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    7An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

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    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • Deut 28:56
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    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

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    16A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.

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    6Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

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    32Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

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    11There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

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    8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 31:2
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    2What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

  • Job 31:18
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    18(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)