13She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
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Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. …
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. …
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-31)This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order, as some of the Psalms , which makes some think it was no part of the lesson which Lemuel’s mother taught him, but a poem by itself, written by some other hand, and perhaps ha…
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