Honoring God

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

An oracle: Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi. — read the full passage →

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

“You shall have no other gods before me.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; — read the full passage →

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. — read the full passage →

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. — read the full passage →

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, — read the full passage →

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, — read the full passage →

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.