'Honour' in the Bible

For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

His glory is great in your salvation: honour and authority have you put on him.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

I will give you praise in the great meeting; I will give you honour among a strong people.

Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.

So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

Make a song in honour of his name: give praise and glory to him.

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.

For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;

Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who gave honour to his name; they made prayers to the Lord, and he gave answers to them.

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.

O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.

Be our saviour, O Lord our God, and let us come back together from among the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name, and have glory in your praise.

His work is full of honour and glory; and his righteousness is unchanging for ever.

Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.

You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.

My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.

To give them the punishment which is in the holy writings: this honour is given to all his saints. Praise be to the Lord.

Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.

Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.

He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.

He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.

A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.

But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.

O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

But when they, the children of Jacob, see the work of my hands among them, they will give honour to my name; yes, they will give honour to the Holy One of Jacob, and go in fear of the God of Israel.

The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour.

For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.

The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.

Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.

By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.

So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:

Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you in hand for the honour of my name, and not for your evil ways or your unclean doings, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord.

For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name.

But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it.

The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation.

At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:

O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.

And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.

But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.

And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.

Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.

These are the words of the Lord: As the keeper of sheep takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or part of an ear; so will the children of Israel be made safe, who are resting in Samaria on seats of honour or on the silk cushions of a bed.

The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.

And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.

He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.

And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.