1Sa 2:30, Pro 27:18 | ESV | STEP | Therefore the Lord , the God of Israel , declares : I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever , but now the Lord declares : Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor , and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed .

c Song 8:12; 1 Cor. 3:8; 9:7; 2 Tim. 2:6

1 Samuel 2:30

30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^a‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^bbut now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Proverbs 27:18

18 ^cWhoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and he who ^dguards his master will be honored.