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Quotes About Dignity

And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
~ Deuteronomy 21:14
Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
~ Deuteronomy 23:15
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
~ Deuteronomy 23:16
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
~ Deuteronomy 24:14
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
~ Deuteronomy 25:3
When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.
~ Ruth 2:15
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORDís, and upon them He has set the world.
~ 1 Samuel 2:8
and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
~ 2 Samuel 6:22
When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
~ 2 Samuel 10:5
“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
~ 2 Samuel 13:12
When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
~ 1 Chronicles 19:5
Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the kingís command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.
~ Esther 1:12
The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the kingís attendants.
~ Esther 6:3
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
~ Job 18:3
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
~ Job 30:15
Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.
~ Job 40:10
You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
~ Psalm 8:5
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
~ Psalm 72:14
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
~ Psalm 113:7
to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.
~ Psalm 113:8
Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;
~ Proverbs 25:6
There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk:
~ Proverbs 30:29
Strength and honor are her clothing, and she can laugh at the days to come.
~ Proverbs 31:25
the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.
~ Isaiah 3:3