Proverbs 31:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁹ “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”

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²⁹ Many daughters have done virtuously, But thou excellest them all.

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²⁹ Many daughters have done virtuously, nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], but you excel them all.

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²⁹ Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.

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²⁹ “Many women act competently, but you surpass them all!”

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²⁹ Many daughters have gathered together riches; you have surpassed them all.

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A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

And now, my daughter, do not fear, I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of worth.