13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God commanded, Honour thy father and mother: and He that revileth father or mother, let him die the death.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother, and, Whoso revileth father or mother, he shall surely die.

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise) That it may be well with thee,

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and honour such.

Now we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labour among you,

In like manner, ye husbands, dwell according to knowledge with the woman, as the weaker vessel; giving them honour, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

But let every one of you in particular so love his wife as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them a service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

Last of all he sent to them his Son, saying, They will reverence my Son.

Having yet therefore one son his well-beloved, he sent him also last to them, saying, They will reverence my son.

Then said the Lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps seeing him they will reverence him.

Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them: Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?