21 Bible Verses About a Good Woman

The Bible describes a good woman in a poem and in the lives of named women. The poem is Proverbs 31:10-31, which praises a wife for her work, her generosity and her wise speech and ends with “a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised” (Proverbs 31:30). The women include Ruth, whom Boaz calls “a woman of noble character” (Ruth 3:11), Deborah (Judges 4:4-5), Abigail (1 Samuel 25:33) and Esther (Esther 4:16), and in the New Testament Dorcas…