Proverbs 31 woman

Question 1

Shamefaced & faithful woman

Answer 1

Sirach 26:15- A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued.

Question 2

Wise women build their house

Answer 2

Proverbs 14:1- Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Question 3

We are a help meet

Answer 3

Genesis 2:18- And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Question 4

We are a pillar of rest

Answer 4

Sirach 36:24- He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.

Question 5

Faithful in all things

Answer 5

1 Timothy 3:11- Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Question 6

Submit to your husband

Answer 6

Ephesians 5:22-24, 33- Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
[23]For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
[24]Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Colossians 3:18- Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Question 7

The husband be won by the conversation of the wife

Answer 7

1 Peter 3:1 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

V.5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Question 8

Reverence your husband

Answer 8

Ephesians 5:33- Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Question 9

Trust

Answer 9

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

Question 10

Slow to wrath

Answer 10

James 1:19 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Question 11

Be in silence

Answer 11

1 Timothy 2:11-14 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Question 12

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband

Answer 12

Proverbs 12:4 - A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Question 13

Agree

Answer 13

Sirach 25:1 - In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

Question 14

Tower against death to your husband

Answer 14

Sirach 26.22- An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman is a tower against death to her husband.

Question 15

A woman that honors her husband

Answer 15

Sirach 26:26- A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of all; but she that dishonoureth him in her pride shall be counted ungodly of all.

Question 16

A silent woman is a gift of the Lord

Answer 16

Sirach 26:14- A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.

Question 17

A virtuous woman rejoice in her husband

Answer 17

Sirach 26:1-2 - Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double.
A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.

Question 18

Countenance

Answer 18

Sirach 26:4 Whether a man be rich or poor, if he have a good heart toward the Lord, he shall at all times rejoice with a cheerful countenance.