Proverbs 12:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:22

Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

Proverbs 12:5

The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

Proverbs 14:1

Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

Proverbs 14:30

A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

Proverbs 30:23

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

Proverbs 31:29

Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.

Habakkuk 3:16

Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

1 Corinthians 11:11

But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

Ruth 3:11

And now, my daughter, have no fear; I will do for you whatever you say: for it is clear to all my townspeople that you are a woman of virtue.