Love the Lord Your God
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matthew 22:37, KJV
Honor begins with rightly ordered worship, humility, and obedience before God.
To live with honor is no easy task. Constant internal strife pushes against an honorable walk. The endeavor of the Guardians of Honor is to assist each of us to walk uprightly.
Honor codes have existed for hundreds of years. Some codes have been strict and recorded, like Bushido or Chivalry; some have not. Not all codes are created equally.
The Guardians draw their code from the writings in the Bible. We do not focus on laws of vengeance or violence, but instead first on redemption through Christ. But we would be fools to stop at belief alone; we must obey what we are instructed to do. An abundance of rules does not impart honor, but an abundance of obedience does.
In an effort to assist in our walk, the Code was written.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matthew 22:37, KJV
Honor begins with rightly ordered worship, humility, and obedience before God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Matthew 22:39, KJV
A Guardian should not treat people as obstacles, tools, or enemies by default. He must seek what is right and good for his neighbor.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 2 Peter 1:5-7, KJV
Faith should produce visible growth: virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, brotherhood, and charity.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23, KJV
Strength without self-command becomes cruelty. The honorable man must cultivate inward fruit, not merely outward image.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6:11, KJV
The fight begins with truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, Scripture, prayer, and endurance.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3, KJV
The Beatitudes teach humility, mercy, purity, peacemaking, endurance, and hunger for righteousness.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach. 1 Timothy 3:2, KJV
Those who lead must be held to a stricter standard of conduct, sobriety, reputation, hospitality, and self-rule.