31Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
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For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: …
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
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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