Proverbs 31:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ She seeks wool and flax and works with willing hands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ She seeketh wool, and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ She seeks out wool and flax and works with willing hands [to develop it].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands.

Common English Bible

¹³ She seeks out wool and flax; she works joyfully with her hands.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ She has sought wool and flax, and she has worked these by the counsel of her hands.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.

Proverbs 31:13 Cross References

Exodus 2:16

The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Proverbs 31:12

She does him good and not harm all the days of her life.

Proverbs 31:14

She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from far away.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,

1 Timothy 5:10

she must be well attested for her good works, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints’ feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.

Ruth 2:23

So she stayed close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests, and she lived with her mother-in-law.