Proverbs 31:30
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
In Context
29Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.
31Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Esther 1:11To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Ecclesiastes 7:18It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not yours hand: for he that fears God shall come out of them all.
Ezekiel 16:15But you did trust in yours own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 31:11-31
The Virtuous Woman. 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considereth a field,… Read the whole commentary →