18 Bible Verses about Respect For People

'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

'Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

honour thy father and mother,

receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

and those having believing masters, let them not slight them, because they are brethren, but rather let them serve, because they are stedfast and beloved, who of the benefit are partaking. These things be teaching and exhorting;

At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

'And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;

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

And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son -- the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

thou -- thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.'