WLC 127: What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors?

Answer: The honor which inferiors owe to their superiors is, all due reverence in heart1, word2, and behavior3; prayer and thanksgiving for them4; imitation of their virtues and graces5; willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels6; due submission to their corrections7; fidelity to8, defense9 and maintenance of their persons and authority, according to their several ranks, and the nature of their places10; bearing with their infirmities, and covering them in love11, that so they may be an honor to them and to their government.12

  1. Mal 1:6; Lev 19:3;
  2. Prov 31:28; 1 Pet 3:6;
  3. Lev 19:32; 1 Kgs 2:19;
  4. 1 Tim 2:1-2;
  5. Heb 13:7; Phil 3:17;
  6. Eph 6:1-2, 5-7; 1 Pet 2:13-14; Rom 13:1-5; Heb 13:17; Prov 4:3-4; 23:22; Ex 18:19, 24;
  7. Heb 12:9; 1 Pet 2:18-20;
  8. Tit 2:9-10;
  9. 1 Sam 26:15-16; 2 Sam 18:3; Esth 6:2;
  10. Mt 22:21; Rom 13:6-7; 1 Tim 5:17-18; Gal 6:6; Gen 45:11; 47:12;
  11. 1 Pet 2:18; Prov 23:22; Gen 9:23;
  12. Ps 127:3-5; Prov 31:23.

 

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