Proverbs 31:10 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous woman? Such a one is indeed more valuable than precious stones.

¹¹ Now therefore, my daughter, be not afraid, I will do for thee all thou hast said; for all the tribe of my people know that thou art a virtuous woman.

¹⁸ Things above need not be mentioned: but prize thou wisdom above all things below.

¹⁵ She is more precious than costly stones: and nothing evil can be compared to her. She is easily known by all who approach her; but no price is equal to her in value.

¹¹ For wisdom is better than precious stones: and no costly thing is equal to it in value.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but a mischievous woman, like a Worm in wood, ruineth her husband.

²² He who hath found a good wife hath found favour, and hath received joy from God. He who putteth away a good wife, putteth away good things; but he who retaineth an adulteress is foolish and wicked.

¹⁴ Fathers bequeath houses and wealth to children; but the Lord accommodateth a wife to a husband.

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²⁸ examining them one by one to find a class which my soul earnestly sought, but I did not find: though I found one man of a thousand, yet a woman among all these I did not find: but behold this I found, that

⁸ There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number: ⁹ one is my dove, my consecrated one. One is her mother's only child; the darling of her who bore her. Daughters viewed her; nay queens and even concubines will hail her happy and thus extoll her."

²⁵ Husbands love your wives, even as the Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself up for it, ²⁶ that having purified it with the bath of the water, he might hallow it; indeed ²⁷ that he might present it to himself as the glorious congregation, having neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any defect whatever; but that it may be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ In the same manner husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loveth his wife, loveth himself. ²⁹ Now no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the congregation, ³⁰ because we are members of his body; of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ Instead of this, "a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they two will be one flesh," ³² this is the great mystery, I mean in regard to Christ and the congregation. ³³ However with regard to you individually, let every one love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.