Proverbs 31:29
“Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!”
BSB
ASV
Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.
KJV
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
The words of praise which the husband Pro 31:28 is supposed to have addressed to the ideal wife. Virtuously - The Hebrew word has primarily (like “virtus”) the idea of “strength,” but is used with various shades of meaning. Here (as in Pro 12:4; Rth 3:11) the strength is that of character stedfast in goodness. In other passages (e. g., Gen 34:29; Psa 49:10) it has the sense of “riches,” and is so taken here by the Septuagint and Vulgate, see also the marginal rendering.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Ephesians 5:27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
leads to
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love