37 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

Therefore give to all their dues; to the one due tax, the tax; tribute to whom tribute is due, fear to whom fear is due, and honor to whom honor is due.

Honor all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to those good and forbearing, but also to the perverse ones.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but of God; the authorities that exist are ordained by God.

Therefore you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

Then be in obedience to every ordinance of men, because of the Lord, whether to a king as supreme,

For because of this you also pay taxes. For they are God's servants, always giving attention to this very thing.

You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah.

Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.

For it is a servant of God to you for good. For if you practice evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, a revenger for wrath on him who does evil.

For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.

and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

Put them in mind to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to every good work,

And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you,

submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

My son, fear Jehovah and the king; and do not fellowship with those who are given to change;

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

So that the one resisting the authority resists the ordinance of God; and the ones who resist will receive judgment to themselves.

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

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

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority on her head because of the angels.

My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Christ, the Lord of glory, with respecter of faces.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good and fearing no terror.

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

Speak these things, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into Heaven, where the angels and authorities and powers are being subjected to Him.

But he who does wrong shall receive justice for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall not respect persons in judgment. You shall hear the small as well as the great. You 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 to me, and I will hear it.

saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

Likewise, indeed, also these dreaming ones even defile flesh, and despise rulership, and speak evil of glories.

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.