What Does the Bible Say About Proverbs 31 Woman?

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Ruth 3:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Proverbs 31:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

Proverbs 31:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

Proverbs 31:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

Proverbs 31:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Proverbs 31:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”

Proverbs 31:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.

Proverbs 31:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Proverbs 31:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

Titus 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Proverbs 31:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

Proverbs 31:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

Proverbs 31:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar.

Proverbs 31:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

Proverbs 31:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.

Proverbs 31:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 31:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Proverbs 31:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Job 28:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.

2 Samuel 23:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

49 Bible Verses about Proverbs 31 Woman

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