40 Bible Verses about Respect

Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

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.

Household servants, be submissive to your masters, and show them the utmost respect--not only if they are kind and thoughtful, but also if they are unreasonable.

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

but in your hearts consecrate Christ as Lord, being always ready to make your defence to any one who asks from you a reason for the hope which you cherish.

Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.

and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

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

and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have everything they need.

The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.

But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

And you masters, act towards your slaves on the same principles, and refrain from threats. For you know that in Heaven there is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely earthly distinctions there are none with Him.

Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

and you pay court to the one who wears the fine clothes, and say, "Sit here; this is a good place;" while to the poor man you say, "Stand there, or sit on the floor at my feet;"

And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,

so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one.

My brethren, you must not make distinctions between one man and another while you are striving to maintain faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our glory.

I do not refer to this through fear of privation, for (for my part)

Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

But not even in this shape was their testimony consistent.

For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.

Pay promptly to all men what is due to them: taxes to those to whom taxes are due, toll to those to whom toll is due, respect to those to whom respect is due, honour to those to whom honour is due.

and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

"In a certain town," He said, "there was a judge who had no fear of God and no respect for man.

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.

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

the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.

Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

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?

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;

The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth.

Nor did he in unbelief stagger at God's promise, but became mighty in faith, giving glory to God,

Deacons, in the same way, must be men of serious demeanour, not double-tongued, nor addicted to much wine, nor greedy of base gain,