Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Let brotherly love continue.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.
submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Then David said to all the assembly, “Bless the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and paid homage to the Lord and to the king.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.”
On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, ‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’
Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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