Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
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Proverbs 31:28-31
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31:30-31 The book concludes where it began, by affirming the ultimate importance of the fear of the Lord (see 1:7). A woman’s character is more important than her physical beauty.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
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