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The word "'''worship'''" comes from the [[Old English]] ''weorthscipe'', which means the condition of being worthy of honor, respect, or dignity.<ref>[https://www.etymonline.com/word/worship '''worship, n.''' - Etymology Online (etymonline.com)]</ref> To worship in this older, larger sense is to ascribe honor, worth, or excellence to someone.  

The word "'''worship'''" comes from the [[Old English]] ''weorthscipe'', which means the condition of being worthy of honor, respect, or dignity.<ref>[https://www.etymonline.com/word/worship '''worship, n.''' - Etymology Online (etymonline.com)]</ref> To worship in this older, larger sense is to ascribe honor, worth, or excellence to someone.  

'''[[Love]]''' is worship. To love is to worship, and whatever is loved most is worshiped above all else, and is that focus in one's life for which one will sacrifice all other considerations. This includes willingness to sacrifice [[religion]], [[philosophy]], [[ethics]], [[ideal]]s, even one's own sworn [[oath]] of [[Loyalty|loyalty (allegiance)]], [[duty]], to [[government]], [[nation]], [[Ethnic Group|people]], [[family]], [[Friendship|friends]], even one's own personal security or safety, for what one loves most.<ref>See [[Hostage]]. Some individuals are willing to sacrifice everything they love most to set a hostage free. Compare [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/john/15-13.htm '''John 15:13'''.]</ref> Nothing is more important than what or who one loves, including one's own self.<ref>A consuming [[vice]] or [[virtue]] is the focus all one's attention and energies. A person can be completely consumed with love of God and neighbor, or consumed with a love of evil and wickedness. A [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cause "'''cause'''"] can animate a person's focus of dedicated devotion as a means to achieve a greater end. A whole life can be dedicated to purity and goodness or to [[Hate|hatred]] and [[corruption]], as in dedication to political power and [[greed]] or to a militant cause to destroy whatever and whoever one hates more than anything else, a perverse love of hating and destruction, a worship of violence rooted in [[Pathology|pathological]] [[malice]] and [[enmity]]. For example, [[hate crime]]s and [[terrorism]]. See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_peter/5-8.htm '''1 Peter 5:8'''.]</ref>

'''[[Love]]''' is worship. To love is to worship, and whatever is loved most is worshiped above all else, and is that focus in one's life for which one will sacrifice all other considerations. This includes willingness to sacrifice [[religion]], [[philosophy]], [[ethics]], [[idea]]ls, [[principle]]s, even one's own sworn [[oath]] of [[Loyalty|loyalty (allegiance)]], [[duty]], to [[government]], [[nation]], [[Ethnic Group|people]], [[family]], [[Friendship|friends]], even one's own personal security or safety, for what one loves most.<ref>Those who are most helpless and innocent need the most protective and nurturing love, and can be loved for their own sake, or for love of God. Compare [[Corporal and spiritual works of mercy]]. See [[Hostage]]. Some individuals are willing to sacrifice everything they love most to set a hostage free. Compare [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/john/15-13.htm '''John 15:13'''.]</ref> Nothing is more important than what or who one loves, including one's own self.<ref>A consuming [[vice]] or [[virtue]] is the focus all one's attention and energies. A person can be completely consumed with love of God and neighbor, or consumed with a love of evil and wickedness. A [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cause "'''cause'''"] can animate a person's focus of dedicated devotion as a means to achieve a greater end. A whole life can be dedicated to purity and goodness or to [[Hate|hatred]] and [[corruption]], as in dedication to political power and [[greed]] or to a militant cause to destroy whatever and whoever one hates more than anything else, a perverse love of hating and destruction, a worship of violence rooted in [[Pathology|pathological]] [[malice]] and [[enmity]]. For example, [[hate crime]]s and [[terrorism]]. See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_peter/5-8.htm '''1 Peter 5:8'''.]</ref>

Worship in its broadest meaning is to ascribe honor, worth, excellence or authority to a person, whether a [[hero]], [[Philosopher|sage]], a [[magistrate]], a [[ruler]], saint, or [[God]], as being worthy of honor, respect, or dignity, even veneration. In the [[Latin]] language the varying degrees of intensity of worshipful respect are expressed as the terms ''dulia, hyperdulia, and latria'', this last, ''latria'', being the unconditional ''adoration'' due to God alone. [[Saint Paul]] in his [[Epistle to the Romans]] expressed it this way:{{cquote|Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those that resist will incur judgment.... Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. <br>—Romans 13:1-2, 7 (RSVCE)}}[[Saint Peter]] wrote:{{cquote|Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right. For it is God's will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. <br>—1 Peter 2:13-17 (RSVCE).}} God commanded, "Honor your father and your mother" <ref>Exodus 20:12</ref>. Paul also wrote, {{cquote|Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ...let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth”. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ; not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatever good any one does he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Masters, do the same to them, and forbear threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.<ref>Ephesians 5:21-22, 5:33–6:9</ref>.}}In human society, this is the proper worship of honor and respect according to human dignity (''dulia''), for God made man, male and female, in the image of God <ref>Genesis 1:26-27</ref>.

Worship in its broadest meaning is to ascribe honor, worth, excellence or authority to a person, whether a [[hero]], [[Philosopher|sage]], a [[magistrate]], a [[ruler]], saint, or [[God]], as being worthy of honor, respect, or dignity, even veneration. In the [[Latin]] language the varying degrees of intensity of worshipful respect are expressed as the terms ''dulia, hyperdulia, and latria'', this last, ''latria'', being the unconditional ''adoration'' due to God alone. [[Saint Paul]] in his [[Epistle to the Romans]] expressed it this way:{{cquote|Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those that resist will incur judgment.... Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. <br>—Romans 13:1-2, 7 (RSVCE)}}[[Saint Peter]] wrote:{{cquote|Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right. For it is God's will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. <br>—1 Peter 2:13-17 (RSVCE).}} God commanded, "Honor your father and your mother" <ref>Exodus 20:12</ref>. Paul also wrote, {{cquote|Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ...let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth”. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ; not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatever good any one does he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Masters, do the same to them, and forbear threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.<ref>Ephesians 5:21-22, 5:33–6:9</ref>.}}In human society, this is the proper worship of honor and respect according to human dignity (''dulia''), for God made man, male and female, in the image of God <ref>Genesis 1:26-27</ref>.