40 Bible Verses about Respect

Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'

However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

Those of you who are domestic servants should always be submissive and respectful to their masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are arbitrary.

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

Revere the Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready to give an answer to any one who asks your reason for the hope that you cherish, but giving it humbly and in all reverence,

Do not, then, allow any one to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.

Hold them in the very greatest esteem and affection for the sake of their work. Live at peace with one another.

'Honor thy father and mother'--this is the first Commandment with a promise--'

And those parts which we deem less honorable we surround with special honor; and our ungraceful parts receive a special grace which our graceful parts do not require.

Those who do wrong will reap the wrong they have done; and there will be no partiality.

But, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.

And masters, treat your slaves in the same spirit. Give up threatening them; for you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in Heaven, and that before him there is no distinction of rank.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

And you are deferential to the man who is wearing grand clothes, and say--"There is a good seat for you here," but to the poor man--"You must stand; or sit down there by my footstool,"

And since you call upon him as 'Father,' who judges every one impartially by what he has done, let reverence be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay upon earth.

So that your conduct may win respect from those outside the Church, and that you may not want for anything.

My Brothers, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the worship of rank?

Do not think that I am saying this under the pressure of want. For I, however I am placed, have learned to be independent of circumstances.

Honor thy father and thy mother.' And 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself."

Yet not even on that point did their evidence agree.

Since God shows no partiality.

In all cases pay what is due from you--tribute where tribute is due, taxes where taxes are due, respect where respect is due, and honor where honor is due.

And submit to one another from reverence for him.

"There was," he said, "in a certain town a judge, who had no fear of God nor regard for man.

Again, those of you who are married men should live considerately with their wives, showing due regard to their sex, as weaker than their own, and not forgetting that they share with you in the gift of Life. Then you will be able to pray without hindrance.

For God said--'Honor thy father and mother,' and 'Let him who reviles his father or mother suffer death,'

the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters--with all purity.

like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain Salvation--

Further, when our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Shall we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of souls, and live?

We beg you, Brothers, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord's service, and give you counsel.

Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's utterances.

He was not led by want of faith to doubt God's promise.

So, too, Assistant-Officers should be serious and straightforward men, not given to taking much drink or to questionable money-making,