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Proverbs 31:18 (AMPC)
She tastes and sees that her gain from work [with and for God] is good; her lamp goes not out, but it burns on continually through the night [of trouble, privation, or sorrow, warning away fear, doubt, and distrust].
Proverbs 31:30 (AMPC)
Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain [because it is not lasting], but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised!
Proverbs 31:11 (AMPC)
The heart of her husband trusts in her confidently and relies on and believes in her securely, so that he has no lack of [honest] gain or need of [dishonest] spoil.
Proverbs 31:15 (AMPC)
She rises while it is yet night and gets [spiritual] food for her household and assigns her maids their tasks. [Job 23:12.]
Proverbs 31:3 (AMPC)
Give not your strength to [loose] women, nor your ways to those who and that which ruin and destroy kings.
Proverbs 31:4 (AMPC)
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink, [Eccl. 10:17; Hos. 4:11.]
Proverbs 4:16 (AMPC)
For they cannot sleep unless they have caused trouble or vexation; their sleep is taken away unless they have caused someone to fall.
Proverbs 5:21 (AMPC)
For the ways of man are directly before the eyes of the Lord, and He [Who would have us live soberly, chastely, and godly] carefully weighs all man's goings. [II Chron. 16:9; Job 31:4; 34:21; Prov. 15:3; Jer. 16:17; Hos. 7:2; Heb. 4:13.]
Proverbs 5:22 (AMPC)
His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 4:25 (AMPC)
Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you.
Proverbs 4:26 (AMPC)
Consider well the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established and ordered aright.
Proverbs 5:10 (AMPC)
Lest strangers [and false teachings] take their fill of your strength and wealth and your labors go to the house of an alien [from God]–
Proverbs 6:14 (AMPC)
Willful and contrary in his heart, he devises trouble, vexation, and evil continually; he lets loose discord and sows it.
Proverbs 7:20 (AMPC)
He has taken a bag of money with him and will come home at the day appointed [at the full moon].
Proverbs 8:6 (AMPC)
Hear, for I will speak excellent and princely things; and the opening of my lips shall be for right things.
Proverbs 8:9 (AMPC)
They are all plain to him who understands [and opens his heart], and right to those who find knowledge [and live by it].
Proverbs 9:8 (AMPC)
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. [Ps. 141:5.]
Proverbs 10:13 (AMPC)
On the lips of him who has discernment skillful and godly Wisdom is found, but discipline and the rod are for the back of him who is without sense and understanding.
Proverbs 10:14 (AMPC)
Wise men store up knowledge [in mind and heart], but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
Proverbs 10:22 (AMPC)
The blessing of the Lord–it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it].
Proverbs 10:29 (AMPC)
The way of the Lord is strength and a stronghold to the upright, but it is destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 10:30 (AMPC)
The [consistently] righteous shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth [eventually]. [Ps. 37:22; 125:1.]
Proverbs 10:32 (AMPC)
The lips of the [uncompromisingly] righteous know [and therefore utter] what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked knows [and therefore speaks only] what is obstinately willful and contrary.
Proverbs 11:2 (AMPC)
When swelling and pride come, then emptiness and shame come also, but with the humble (those who are lowly, who have been pruned or chiseled by trial, and renounce self) are skillful and godly Wisdom and soundness.
Proverbs 11:7 (AMPC)
When the wicked man dies, his hope [for the future] perishes; and the expectation of the godless comes to nothing.