Honor
The Currency of the Kingdom
1 Timothy 5:17 (ESV) – Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
Honor anything before God and it is misplaced.
1 Timothy 1:17 (ESV) – To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Samuel 2:30 (ESV) – Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Proverbs 3:6 (ESV) – In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
When you honor God, He honors you.
Romans 12:9–13 (ESV) – Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Hebrews 13:4 (ESV) – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Deuteronomy 5:16 (ESV) – “ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, 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.
Romans 12:10 (ESV) – Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 13:1–7 (ESV) – Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
God first, and the rest are allowed by God.
How can we improve showing honor to those we love and to those in authority over us?