30 (A)Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
    but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

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but let your adorning be (A)the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

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(A)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
    fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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22 Like (A)a gold ring in a pig's snout
    is a beautiful woman without discretion.

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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is (B)hatred of evil.
(C)Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
    and (D)perverted speech I hate.

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24 for

(A)“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,

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Therefore (A)do not pronounce judgment before the time, (B)before the Lord comes, (C)who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. (D)Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

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11 but the Lord (A)takes pleasure in those who fear him,
    in those who (B)hope in his steadfast love.

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11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king with (A)her royal crown,[a] in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at. 12 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 1:11 Or headdress

so that (A)the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes (B)though it is tested by (C)fire—may be found to result in (D)praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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And they were both (A)righteous before God, walking (B)blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

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25 (A)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (B)eyelashes;

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25 Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. (A)From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

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