Proverbs 31:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies.

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  • Prov 19:14 : 14 ¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
  • Prov 12:4 : 4 ¶ A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
  • Prov 18:22 : 22 ¶ [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
  • Ruth 3:11 : 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou [art] a virtuous woman.
  • Job 28:18 : 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.
  • Prov 3:15 : 15 She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
  • Prov 8:11 : 11 For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
  • Eph 5:25-33 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.
  • Prov 20:15 : 15 ¶ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
  • Eccl 7:28 : 28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
  • Song 6:8-9 : 8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 9 My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; [yea], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

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    13¶ Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding.

    14For the merchandise of it [is] better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

    15She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

    16Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honour.

    17Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

    18She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

  • Prov 31:11-31
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    12She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

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    15She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

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    18She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night.

    19She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

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    22She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.

    23Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

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    4¶ A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.

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    27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:

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