Psalms 144:12 Cross References

Psalms 144:12

12: May our sons flourish in their youth like well-nurtured plants. May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace.

Psalms 128:3

  1. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine, flourishing within your home. And look at all those children! There they sit around your table as vigorous and healthy as young olive trees.

1 Peter 3:3

  1. Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes.
  2. You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.
  3. That is the way the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They trusted God and accepted the authority of their husbands.
  4. For instance, Sarah obeyed her husband, Abraham, when she called him her master. You are her daughters when you do what is right without fear of what your husbands might do.

Isaiah 44:3

  1. For I will give you abundant water to quench your thirst and to moisten your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit and my blessings on your children.
  2. They will thrive like watered grass, like willows on a riverbank.
  3. Some will proudly claim, `I belong to the LORD.' Others will say, `I am a descendant of Jacob.' Some will write the LORD's name on their hands and will take the honored name of Israel as their own.

Job 42:15

  1. In all the land there were no other women as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.

Psalms 127:4

  1. Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior's hands.
  2. How happy is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.

The Song of Songs 8:8

  1. We have a little sister too young for breasts. What will we do if someone asks to marry her?
  2. If she is chaste, we will strengthen and encourage her. But if she is promiscuous, we will shut her off from men.

Psalms 115:14

  1. May the LORD richly bless both you and your children.
  2. May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Lamentations 4:2

  1. See how the precious children of Jerusalem, worth their weight in gold, are now treated like pots of clay.

Isaiah 3:16

  1. Next the LORD will judge the women of Jerusalem, who walk around with their noses in the air, with tinkling ornaments on their ankles. Their eyes rove among the crowds, flirting with the men.
  2. The Lord will send a plague of scabs to ornament their heads. Yes, the LORD will make them bald for all to see!
  3. The Lord will strip away their artful beauty--their ornaments, headbands, and crescent necklaces;
  4. their earrings, bracelets, and veils of shimmering gauze.
  5. Gone will be their scarves, ankle chains, sashes, perfumes, and charms;

Proverbs 31:10

  1. Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is worth more than precious rubies.
  2. Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life.
  3. She will not hinder him but help him all her life.
  4. She finds wool and flax and busily spins it.
  5. She is like a merchant's ship; she brings her food from afar.
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