37 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

for kings, and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and integrity.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and humane, but also to the unjust.

Let every soul submit itself to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God, and the powers that be are ordained of God.

Therefore it is necessary that ye be subject, not only for punishment, but also for conscience sake.

Therefore, be subject to every human ordinance that is of the Lord, whether it be to a king or to a superior,

For this cause ye also pay them tribute, for they are God's ministers, attending continually to this very thing.

Thou shalt rise up before grey hair and honour the face of the elder and fear thy God. I am the LORD.

Listen to your pastors, and do not resist them, for they watch for your souls as those that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.

for he is a minister of God for thy good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.

For the magistrates are not a terror unto those who do good, but to the doer of evil. Is thy desire therefore to not fear the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same;

and now has no need to honour his father or his mother with succour. Thus ye have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

Admonish them to be subject to dominion and power, and to persuade those who have authority, that they be quick unto every good work.

And we beseech you, brethren, to recognize those who labour among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you

submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;

My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not meddle with those that are given to change,

Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy, for by faith ye stand.

Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God, and those that resist shall receive condemnation to themselves.

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

and that you express greater charity unto them for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be lengthened upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her head: because of the angels.

My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus, the glorious Christ, with respect of persons.

as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom ye are made daughters, doing well and not being afraid of any terror.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord.

These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husband, as unto the Lord.

who is at the right hand of God, having ascended into heaven, unto whom the angels and the authorities and powers are subject.

But he that does wrong shall receive the wrong which he has done, now that there is no respect of persons.

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in Moses' seat;

In the same manner these deceived dreamers, defile their flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of higher powers.

Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.