Bible Etiquette

• Leviticus 19:32. Always rise and give a seat to an aged person.BHB 179.4

• Exodus 20:12. Show especial respect to your father and mother.BHB 179.5

• Proverbs 1:8, 9. Respect for parents gives a charm and dignity to the character.BHB 179.6

• Leviticus 19:14. Be careful to show kindness to any that have physical deformities, as the blind, deaf, etc.BHB 179.7

• Exodus 22:22-24. Be kind to those who have passed through heavy sorrow, widows and fatherless children.BHB 179.8

• 2 Timothy 2:24. “Be gentle unto all men.” Prophets and Kings, 237; Testimonies for the Church 2:647.BHB 179.9

• 1 Peter 3:7. Men should respect and honor the women.BHB 179.10

• 1 Timothy 2:12, 13. Women should not be forward and take the place of men, but should recognize men as occupying the first place.BHB 179.11

• Matthew 5:33-37. Avoid allslang expressions of every sort. Christ’s Object Lessons, 336, 337.BHB 179.12

• Proverbs 7:11. Avoid all loud talking. The Ministry of Healing, 489, 490.BHB 179.13

• Proverbs 6:13-15. Winking, or making signs with the hands and feet, is very rude.BHB 179.14

• Proverbs 25:17. It is not good etiquette to visit the same family too often.BHB 179.15

• Proverbs 27:14. If one rises very early in the morning, he should be quiet so as not to disturb others.BHB 179.16

• 1 Peter 3:1-5. Nothing adds to a woman’s charms like a “meek and quiet spirit.” Testimonies for the Church 2:133.BHB 180.1

• Proverbs 31:30. “Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”BHB 180.2