100 Bible Verses About Honor

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.

Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.

Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

Then Bath–sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

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.

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

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;

Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

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

I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.

And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

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

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.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

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

Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

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

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

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

On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:

Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.

These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

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

Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:

And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.

And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:

Bath–sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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

Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

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