1Sa 2:30, Pro 27:18, Joh 14:21-23 | 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 .

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.

John 14:21-23

21 ^eWhoever has my commandments and ^fkeeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^ghe who loves me ^hwill be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ⁱmanifest myself to him.” 22 ^jJudas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it ^kthat you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, ^l“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ^mwe will come to him and ⁿmake our home with him.