Proverbs 12:4
"A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones."
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- Proverbs 31:10
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 14:1
"Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 14:30
"A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 19:13
"A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 21:19
"It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 11:11
"Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 27:15
"A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 11:7
"For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man."
Read in chapter → - Habakkuk 3:16
"When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops."
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