100 Bible Verses About Dignity

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.

Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:

And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;

And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.