Prov. xxxi.

Her Religion.

I. The secret of her many excellencies here portrayed.

It did not consist in beauty. Verse 30. A pretty face often leads to ruin. Prov. xi. 22. Ezek. xxviii. 17.

Never make much of a child’s beauty.

But it was this, she was a religious woman, actuated in all she did by the fear of the Lord. Verse 30.

The woman who fears the Lord.

1. Hates evil. Prov. viii. 13.

2. It is her moving principle, ‘all the day long.’ Prov. xxiii. 17.

3. She is happy, though poor. Prov. xv. 16.

4. It is her confidence and refuge in trial. Prov. xiv. 26.

5. It is well with her. Eccles. viii. 12.

II. She shows her love to Christ, by her love to His people. Verse 20.

Acts, ix. 36. Heb. xiii. 16.

You need not be rich to be charitable.

The poorest may give. 2 Cor. viii. 2.

God looks not at the size, or value of the gift, but the motive from which it springs. 2 Cor. viii. 12.

The widow’s mite. Mark, xii. 42, 44.

The cup of cold water. Matt. x. 42; xxv. 35.

Nursing a sick neighbour. 1 Tim. v. 10.