Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.
Pastor Stuart McAlpine presents a sermon on The Acceptables and helps us reflect on Psalm 69:13 (ESV)
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Paul's contributions to our understanding of the powers of evil is to sum them up in the phrase 'principalities and powers'. For him they...