Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Cross References
Psalm 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Proverbs 11:16A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.
Proverbs 22:4The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
Proverbs 31:29"Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!"
Proverbs 31:31Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.
Treasury of Scripture
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
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Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Proverbs 11:22
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
2 Samuel 14:25
But 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.
a woman
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Exodus 1:17-21
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive…
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Ecclesiastes 7:18
It 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.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Romans 2:29
But 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.
