13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God commanded saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die with death.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and let the one speaking evil of father and mother die the death.

You know the commandments, thou must not commit adultery, thou must not murder, thou must not steal, thou must not bear false witness, thou must not defraud, honor thy father and mother.

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,

Then receive him in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor:

But we intreat you, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you, and standing before you in the Lord, and admonishing you;

Likewise, ye husbands, dwelling with the wife according to knowledge, as the weaker vessel, extending to them honor, as indeed the equal heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers should not be hindered.

Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.

But let those that have faithful masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather let them serve them, because they are the faithful and beloved who are partaking of the benefaction. Command these things and exhort them.

And afterward he sent to them his own son, saying, They will reverence my son.

Then having still one son, his own beloved, he sent him also to them last, saying; That they will reverence my son.

And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my own beloved son: perchance seeing, they will reverence him.

Then indeed, we had fathers of our flesh who chastised us, and we endured: how much more then shall we submit to the Father of spirits, and live?