Proverbs 31:10

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

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

Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.

“ ‘ “Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,

Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.