“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” – Part 1

(Pro 31:12-16)

[Study Aired July 9, 2026]

Pro 31:12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Pro 31:13  She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Pro 31:14  She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Pro 31:15  She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Pro 31:16  She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

The physical endeavors that preserve this woman’s family due to the diligent spirit God has given her (Pro 31:12-31) represent the diligent work that He is doing within the bride of Christ (Php 2:12-13), the church today,  “to preserve you a posterity in the earth,” meaning all the world (Mat 5:5), that is going to be saved by a great deliverance via the body of Christ. The natural deliverance will come first (Mat 24:22) and then in the great white throne judgement all of mankind will be saved via the body of Christ (1Co 15:46, 1Co 6:3, Luk 1:30, Luk 2:35, Gen 45:7-8, Oba 1:21).

Mat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Mat 5:5  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Luk 1:30  And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour^G5485 with God.

Luk 2:35  (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. [God’s grace is God’s favour^G5485 upon the body of Christ demonstrated in chastening us and scourging us (Heb 12:6) so that we forsake ungodliness and worldly lusts in this age, and that is the piercing being spoken of that Mary who represents the church must endure (Tit 2:12)]

Gen 45:7  And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. (typified by Israel being delivered by a mighty hand from Egypt. God is doing the same thing with the Israel of God, moving heaven and earth for the body of Christ today to deliver us so that we can become saviours who come up on mount Zion to deliver the world (Mat 28:18))
Gen 45:8  So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

This woman of Proverbs 31 spoken of as “she” and “her” multiple times typifies the body of Christ who like Christ will be found “full of grace^G5485 and truth” (Joh 1:14) in the first resurrection, and is why the angel says to Mary who typifies the church, “for thou hast found favour^G5485 with God”(Luk 1:30). It is an ongoing favour that God’s people are growing in as we fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ for His bodies “which is the church” (Col 1:24).

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

God has chosen “the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty”, to accomplish His work that no flesh will glory in (1Co 1:29-31).

1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. [Aaron’s study last night reminded us of  the “far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” which is the life of Christ being formed in us through “our light affliction, which is but for a moment” (2Co 4:17)]

God’s mercy is ultimately extended to all of His creation in due time through the body of Christ (1Co 1:25-27, Rom 11:25-32) who are sent with His word to heal the nations (1Jn 3:17, Joh 20:21, Psa 107:20-22). Our “due time” to experience that deliverance is right now, and is being accomplished through His judgements upon the bride who will be made ready (Rev 19:7), and have many children (Rom 5:6, 1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:17, Gal 4:27).

Gal 4:27  For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

In this last section of chapter 31 of Proverbs we will look at the typical fruit of righteousness that God produces through this woman who represents the body of Christ doing these works unto our husband Jesus Christ. These works were purposed in Christ and ordained from the foundation of the world (Eph 1:9-10, Eph 2:10-13).

Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

The works spoken of in these last verses of chapter 31 are all typical of what God can do through the body of Christ spiritually. The works that He has accomplished through the prophets of old bear witness (1Pe 1:12) of these wonderful works that God has ordained for Christ’s wife to bring forth in this age, and going forward. We are truly more than conquerors through Him, is what we are being shown by all these excellent works that this woman does (1Pe 1:12, 1Co 10:11, Jas 5:10, Heb 11:1-14, Php 3:14, Rom 8:37-39).

Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Pro 31:12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

God’s intention for the bride of Christ is to have her “do good and not evil all the days of her life” unto him, meaning unto Christ. God sees the bride of Christ through Christ by whom we are accepted (Eph 1:6). So our new man in Christ can do nothing but “good and not evil all the days of her life” (1Jn 3:9).

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

1Jn 3:9  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; [“good and not evil all the days of her life”] for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Our old man is decreasing as Christ increases (Joh 3:30, 1Jn 1:8), and the giants in the land are being overtaken by little and little (Exo 23:30-31, Deu 7:22), giving us strength to overcome and putting us in remembrance of who is doing the work within us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure, but as always it is a process that is promised to take our entire life (Php 2:12-13).

Joh 3:30  He must increase, but I must decrease.

1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Exo 23:30  By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. (Mat 24:13)

Deu 7:22  And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Pro 31:13  She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

The “she” who is the church, the bride of Christ, does many detailed things, that we know represent what Christ is doing through us both to will and to do of God’s good pleasure, that we are working out by God’s spirit within us (Php 2:12-13, Zec 4:6).

Zec 4:6  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

It is done “willingly with her hands” because our hands are not our own (1Co 12:15), and our old carnal hands are being cut off, and our carnal eyes gouged out (Mat 18:8-9),  so that we can seek  “wool, and flax” that represent the righteousness of Christ that is meant to ‘cover our nakedness’ (Hos 2:9), which we seek first through Christ’s body (Mat 6:33-34). These two fabrics mentioned demonstrate the witness of the righteousness of Christ that we are blessed to have a hunger and thirst for in this life (Rev 19:8, Mat 5:6). Having the fabric is one thing, even as having the faith, but when the fabric is woven into something practical “worketh willingly with her hands”, it becomes precious, just as the trial of our faith does in God’s sight (1Pe 1:7).

1Co 12:15  If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Pro 31:14  She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

Notice the bride is likened unto a “merchants’ ship” who brings “her food from afar”.

There are negative merchant ships that ply the waters of Tyre carrying the adulterous lies of Babylon to every corner of the world and these ships go afar with the intention of making one proselyte, “and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves”(Isa 23:1, Mat 23:15).

Isa 23:1  The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

And then there is this diligent woman [Jerusalem above the mother of us all, the ‘mother ship’ as it were (Gal 4:26)] who does not stubbornly ‘go afar compassing sea and land to make one proselyte’, but rather by God’s grace and the faith of Christ (Jas 4:13-17) she diligently searches out the scriptures afar, to go whatever distance it takes (Mat 5:41, Jer 29:13, Heb 11:6) to understand the will of God and receives her food or spiritual increase from Him, who abundantly provides “her food from afar” that is made manifest in the church (Psa 145:18, Eph 3:10).

When Christ revealed himself in these two stories he was not afar, but near as He always is (the blind man healed and cast out of the synagogue Joh 9:36-37, the woman of Samaria who meets Christ at the well Joh 4:25-26). It is when we are blessed to be drawn to Christ (Joh 6:44) that the spirit bear witness with us that we are His sons (Rom 8:15-16) who have had our eyes and ears open (1Co 13:12, 1Co 15:31). Being led then by the spirit is the key (Rom 8:14), whether we are taken near or far, we are always seeking a country even while we have the earnest of our inheritance “sealed with that holy spirit of promise” (Heb 11:9-10, Heb 11:14, Eph 1:13-14)

Heb 11:9  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb 11:10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Heb 11:11  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Heb 11:12  Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Heb 11:13  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb 11:14  For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Pro 31:15  She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

Rising early, “She riseth also while it is yet night”, represents the diligent spirit that God is fashioning within the body of Christ who sacrifice their lives to be where they have to be, and when they have to be there for the body’s sake, which leads to spiritual liberty (Rom 8:14-16, 2Co 3:17, Mat 24:45-46).

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

2Co 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Mat 24:45  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?  [“and giveth meat to her household”]
Mat 24:46  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

The “portion”^H2706 given to the maidens is telling us that what God gives us to give to each other is done so in the measure of faith that we each operate in (Rom 12:3), and every joint supplies (Eph 4:16) in providing for these “maidens”^H5291 who represent the maturing body of Christ.

Rom 12:3  For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

portion   H2706   chôq   khoke
From H2710; an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage): – appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree (-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance (-nary), portion, set time, statute, task. Total KJV occurrences: 127

maidens  H5291  na‛ărâh  nah-ar-aw’
Feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence): – damsel, maid (-en), young (woman).  Total KJV occurrences: 63

Rising “while it is yet night” symbolizes that because the light of Christ is in our lives, both the day and the night are the same unto us (Psa 139:12, 1Jn 4:17), and we can find ourselves being spiritually productive in this spiritually dead world that is lying in darkness. The darkness or unbelief of others is not going to prevent the faith of Christ from prevailing within the body of Christ (1Jn 5:19, Rom 3:3-4). God alone can use the evil circumstances, the darkness, for the good of the body of Christ, and so the light and darkness are His to use to His glory, and it is all for the elect’s sake (Isa 45:7, 2Co 4:15)

Psa 139:12  Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.(Rom 12:21)

1Jn 5:19  And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Rom 3:3  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Rom 3:4  God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Pro 31:16  She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

The field is the world, which we are in but not part of (Mat 13:38, Joh 17:15-16), and while we are here we are to occupy or tend to His vineyard until Christ returns (Luk 19:13). Christ’s vineyard is in the world but not of it, so the field she is considering and buying is the Lord’s vineyard where there is a pearl of great price.

Mat 13:38  The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

Joh 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Luk 19:13  And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. [His holy vineyard, the church, where fruit is being born to the glory of God]

We are dragged to Christ (Joh 6:44) and as such are blessed to find the pearl of great price in this age (Mat 13:45-46). The land or field that is purchased is the positive use of the word “field” that we buy because we consider this ground or land that represents our bodies to be a holy habitation of our Father and Christ (1Ti 3:15, Exo 3:5, Col 1:27, Rom 8:9, Joh 14:20).

Mat 13:45  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Mat 13:46  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

1Ti 3:15  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Exo 3:5  And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

It is in this holy place, the church, “the pillar and ground of the truth”, that we can, by the grace of God plant a vineyard and be as Christ (1Jn 4:17), being given the fruit of the holy spirit, “with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard”. We water and plant but God is the one who gives the increase in this vineyard that belongs to Him (1Co 3:6, Eph 2:10).

1Co 3:6  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

The Lord will “Give her of the fruit of her hands”(Pro 31:31), which encourages us to know that God has an expected end for the bride of Christ (Jer 29:11) and that our labours “with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard” are not in vain (1Co 15:58, Heb 6:10) and will bring forth much fruit as God gives this increase, “Give her of the fruit of her hands”(Mat 13:8-9).

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end (Mat 13:8-9).

1Co 15:58  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Heb 6:10  For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Mat 13:8  But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mat 13:9  Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. [100+60+30=190 fold= 19×10=190 meaning the day of the Lord 1 produces judgement 9 in our land 10 so that we can bring forth much fruit as His kind of first fruits]

Next week Lord willing, will look into more of the “fruit of her hands” that Christ is accomplishing within His bride, within His vineyard.