Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceitful and beauty fleeting, but the woman who fears Yahweh is the one truly worthy of praise. Reverence for God, not appearance, is the foundation of her excellence.

Cross-references · 19

• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• 1 Pet 3:4–5But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
• Prov 11:22As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
• Prov 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
• 1 Pet 1:24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• Esth 1:11–12To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
• Ps 147:11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
• 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
• 1 Pet 1:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
• Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Prov 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
• 2 Sam 14:25But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
• Luke 1:46–50And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
• Jas 1:11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
• Eccl 12:13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
• Exod 1:17–21But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
• Rom 2:29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
• Ezek 16:15But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
• Eccl 7:18It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

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