Proverbs 4:8
Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.
BSB
ASV
Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
KJV
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
If a man is going to carry out the advice of Solomon and take for helpmate and life-companion that true Wisdom of which he says, "Love her, and she shall keep thee," "honour her, that she may embrace thee," then he will prepare himself in a manner worthy of such a love, so as to feast with all the joyous wedding guests in spotless raiment, and not be cast forth, while claiming to sit at that feast, for not having put on the wedding garment.
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 walk8
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.
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Proverbs 22:4The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
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But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
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Daniel 12:3Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
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Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
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1 Samuel 2:30Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it…
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If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
