Ruth 3:11

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

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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.

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

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

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.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

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.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

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

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.

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

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.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

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

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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,

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”

I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

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.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

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

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;