31 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

Give to all their dues: custom to whom custom is due; tribute to whom tribute is due; fear to whom fear is due; honor to whom honor is due.

Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.

for kings and all who are in authority; in order that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty.

Servants, be submissive to your masters with all reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except that which is from God; and the existing authorities have been ordained of God.

Therefore it is necessary to submit, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.

Submit to every human creature for the sake of the Lord: whether to the king as supereminent,

For on account of this also pay tribute; for they are the ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you.

for he is the minister of God for you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, executing judgment unto wrath unto the one doing evil.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Whether do you not wish to fear the authority? do the good, and you shall have praise from it:

You made void the commandment of God by your tradition.

Remind them to submit to the governments, authorities, to obey the rule over them, to be ready unto every good work,

But we intreat you, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you, and standing before you in the Lord, and admonishing you;

being submissive to one another in the fear of Christ.

and especially those going after the flesh in the lust of pollution, and despising lordship. Audacious darers, blaspheming, they do not tremble at glories;

not that we domineer over your faith, but we are fellow-workers of your joy: for by faith you stand.

So the one resisting the authority, antagonizes the ordinance of God: and those antagonizing shall receive to themselves judgment.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

and that you yourselves esteem them exceedingly in divine love for the sake of their work. Live in peace among yourselves.

Therefore the woman ought to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect to persons.

as Sarah submitted to Abraham, calling him Lord: whose children you have become, doing good, and not fearing any calamity.

Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord.

Speak these things and exhort and convict with all authority; let no one despise thee.

Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

who is on the right hand of God, having gone up into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being subordinated unto him.

for the one doing wrong receives that for which he did the injustice: and there is no respect of persons.

Then indeed, we had fathers of our flesh who chastised us, and we endured: how much more then shall we submit to the Father of spirits, and live?

saying, The scribes and Pharisees sat upon the seat of Moses;

Likewise indeed these dreamers also pollute the flesh, and reject lordship, and blaspheme glories.