¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

¹⁴ House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

²² Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

²⁶ That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

³² This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

¹⁵ She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

¹¹ And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

²⁸ Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

¹¹ For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.