Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
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Proverbs 31:8-12
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31:10-31 Proverbs ends with a powerful poem celebrating the virtuous wife. The poem’s acrostic arrangement gives an impression of completeness and provides the student with an aid for learning.
31:10-12 No one can find a virtuous and capable wife without God’s help (18:22). Such a woman, like wisdom, is more precious than rubies (cp. 3:15).
Other Bible passages linked to this one, most cited first.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 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.
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 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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