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