How can I honor others? - Honor - TouchPoints

Philippians 2:19-23If the Lord Jesus is willing, I hope to send Timothy to you soon for a visit. Then he can cheer me up by telling me how you are getting along. I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ. But you know how Timothy has proved himself. Like a son with his father, he has served with me in preaching the Good News.

Philippians 2:25Meanwhile, I thought I should send Epaphroditus back to you. He is a true brother, co-worker, and fellow soldier. And he was your messenger to help me in my need.

We honor others when we speak well of them.

Philippians 2:29-30Welcome him in the Lord’s love and with great joy, and give him the honor that people like him deserve. For he risked his life for the work of Christ, and he was at the point of death while doing for me what you couldn’t do from far away.

We honor others by welcoming them with love and joy.

1 Thessalonians 5:12-13Dear brothers and sisters, honor those who are your leaders in the Lord’s work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual guidance. Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other.

We honor our leaders by esteeming them and demonstrating our love for them.

Leviticus 19:32“Stand up in the presence of the elderly, and show respect for the aged. Fear your God. I am the Lord.”

1 Timothy 5:1, 3Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him respectfully as you would to your own father. . . . Take care of any widow who has no one else to care for her.

We honor the elderly by our private and public respect for them and by caring for them.

Matthew 5:28“But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

1 Timothy 2:9I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes.

1 Timothy 5:2Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters.

We honor the opposite sex when we act in purity toward them.

Romans 12:10Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.

We are to honor each other with delight and not grudgingly.