13 occurrences

'Honorable' in the Bible

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the River. Now

“But the earth belongs to the mighty man,And the honorable man dwells in it.

The captain of fifty and the honorable man,The counselor and the expert artisan,And the skillful enchanter.

And the people will be oppressed,Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;The youth will storm against the elderAnd the inferior against the honorable.

Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;And their honorable men are famished,And their multitude is parched with thirst.

The head is the elder and honorable man,And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

“If because of the sabbath, you turn your footFrom doing your own pleasure on My holy day,And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable,And honor it, desisting from your own ways,From seeking your own pleasureAnd speaking your own word,

Yet she became an exile,She went into captivity;Also her small children were dashed to piecesAt the head of every street;They cast lots for her honorable men,And all her great men were bound with fetters.

Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?

and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

for we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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