because.

Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

Isaiah 62:4
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.

honourable.

Genesis 41:20
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

Numbers 22:15
Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.

1 Samuel 22:14
Ahimelech answered the king, "Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard, who is honored in your house?

2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master's sight and highly regarded; for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty warrior, but he was a leper.

1 Chronicles 4:9
Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."

Isaiah 3:3-5
the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter. . . .

Isaiah 5:13
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving, and their masses are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 23:8, 9
Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth? . . .

Acts 13:50
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.

Acts 17:12
As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.