An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.
And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.
There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.
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