Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those to whom you owe taxes, tolls to those to whom you owe tolls, respect to those to whom you owe respect, and honour to those to whom you owe honour.
In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with humility towards one another, because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. ,
Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly, ,
All who are under the yoke as slaves should regard their own masters as worthy of all respect, so that God’s name and his teaching will not be blasphemed.
So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
Then David said to the whole assembly, ‘Blessed be the Lord your God.’ So the whole assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors. They knelt low and paid homage to the Lord and the king.
Saul said, ‘I have sinned. Please honour me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me so I can bow in worship to the Lord your God.’
Then he said, ‘Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.’