Devine Scripture

Proverbs 31:30

Proverbs chapter 31 · verse 30 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

Context

v.29Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.

v.30This passage

v.31Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Samuel 14:25

    Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

  • Esther 1:11

    to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look on.

  • 1 Peter 1:24

    For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • 1 Corinthians 4:5

    Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.

  • Romans 2:29

    but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  • Ezekiel 16:15

    But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.