God’s Beautiful Woman

The test of real beauty    Proverbs 31:10-31

I: King Lemuel’s Mother’s Council
1. Find a virtuous woman — her price is far above rubies.
2. Her husband trusts her.
3. She is industrious.
4. She has compassion for the needy.
5. She is confident in her care for her own.
6. Strength and honor is her best clothing.
7. She has control of her language.
8. Wisdom and kindness is in her tongue.
9. Her children rise up and called her blessed, her husband also.
“Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain.” Proverbs 31:30, Tim. 1 2:9, and Peter 1 3:3.

II: Peter’s Description of the Beautiful Woman.
1. Subject, submissive to husband.
2. A life so dedicated to God that a lost husband can be saved, ex: Mrs. Pat Boone.
3. Chaste: Pure in respect to her body, free from obscenity, simple, descent, restrained, pure in style. Chaste in daily living.
4. “Your adornments must be not of external nature.” God puts little value on what the world calls beauty.
5. “Of an internal nature, the character concealed in the heart, a quiet and gentle spirit.”
a. Quiet, tranquil, peaceful, mentally calm, cause to subside, to become quiet, making no disturbance or trouble, not turbulent, restraint in speech, not talkative.
b. Gentle: Refined and good manners, polite, forbearing and considerate.
6. Jesus Christ made all this possible for every woman. This beauty is found in a new heart, a new person yielded to the beauty parlor of God.

Horace Shelly went home.

To test a woman’s real beauty ask about…
Her husband, her children, her neighbors, her friends. These for whom she works or who wish for her. Ask her church or lodge. Measure her by the Bible Standards of Beauty.