Treat With Honor and Respect

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”

And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to reward you richly?”

Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’

Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”

Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

“I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”

and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”

the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”

the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”

who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.

I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;

Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.

Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored.

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.

You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength—

If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,

The glory of Lebanon will come to you—its cypress, elm, and boxwood together—to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.

Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his fathers did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’