Proverbs 31:10

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Description of a Worthy Woman

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^[a]An excellent woman [one who is spiritual, capable, intelligent, and virtuous], who is he who can find her?
Her value is more precious than jewels and her worth is far above rubies or pearls.^(A)

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Footnotes

Proverbs 31:10 The following verses are written as an acrostic poem (each of the twenty-two verses begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet). Aside from the artistry, the acrostic structure also aided memorization.

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Proverbs 31:28

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Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired);
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying,

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Ephesians 5:28

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²⁸Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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