Proverbs 31:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ She girdeth her loins with strength, And strengtheneth her arms.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ She girds herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] and makes her arms strong and firm.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ She works energetically; her arms are powerful.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ She has wrapped her waist with fortitude, and she has strengthened her arm.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.

Proverbs 31:17 Cross References

Genesis 49:24

yet his bow remained unmoved, his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel),

1 Kings 18:46

And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

2 Kings 4:29

He said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet any one, do not salute him; and if any one salutes you, do not reply; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.”

Job 38:3

Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

Proverbs 31:16

She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

Proverbs 31:18

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Isaiah 44:12

The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals; he shapes it with hammers, and forges it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint.

Hosea 7:15

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.

Luke 12:35

“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore gird up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.