13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';

For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'

You know the Commandments--'Do not murder;' 'Do not commit adultery;' 'Do not steal;' 'Do not lie in giving evidence;' 'Do not defraud;' 'Honour thy father and thy mother.'"

"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--

Receive him therefore with heartfelt Christian joy, and hold in honour men like him;

Now we beg you, brethren, to show respect for those who labour among you and are your leaders in Christian work, and are your advisers;

Married men, in the same way, live with your wives with a clear recognition of the fact that they are weaker than you. Yet, since you are heirs with them of God's free gift of Life, treat them with honour; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

And those who have believing masters should not be wanting in respect towards them because they are their brethren, but should serve them all the more willingly because those who profit by the faithful service rendered are believers and are friends.

Later still he sent to them his son, saying, "'They will respect my son.'

He had still one left whom he could send, a dearly-loved son: him last of all he sent, saying, "'They will treat my son with respect.'

Then the owner of the vineyard said, "'What am I to do? I will send my son--my dearly-loved son: they will probably respect him.'

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?