37 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

Give to every man therefore his duty: Tribute to whom tribute belongeth: Custom to whom custom is due: fear to whom fear belongeth: Honour to whom honour pertaineth.

See that ye honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship, fear God, and honour the King.

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

Servants obey your masters with all fear, not only if they be good and courteous: but also though they be froward.

Let every soul submit himself unto the authority of the higher powers. For there is no power, but of God. The powers that be, are ordained of God.

Wherefore ye must needs obey, not for fear of vengeance only: but also because of conscience.

Submit yourselves unto all manner ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be unto the King as unto the chief head;

And even for this cause pay ye tribute. For they are God's ministers, serving for the same purpose.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoar head and reverence the face of the old man; and dread thy God, for I am the LORD.

Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit yourselves to them, for they watch for your souls, even as they that must give accounts for them: that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. For that is an unprofitable thing for you.

For he is the minister of God, for thy wealth. But and if thou do evil, then fear: for he beareth not a sword for nought; but is the minister of God, to take vengeance on them that do evil.

For rulers are not to be feared for good works but for evil. Wilt thou be without fear of the power? Do well then: and so shalt thou be praised of the same.

And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions.

Warn them, that they submit themselves to rule and power, to obey the officers, that they be ready unto all good works,

We beseech you brethren, that ye know them which labour among you, and have the oversight of you in the Lord,

submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

namely, them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise the rulers. Presumptuous are they, and stubborn, and fear not to speak evil of them that are in authority;

My son, fear thou the LORD and the king, and keep no company with them that slide back from his fear:

Not that we be lords over your faith: but helpers of your joy. For by faith ye stand.

Whosoever therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

and give you exhortation, that ye have them the more in love: For their work's sake, and be at peace with them.

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head, for the angels' sakes.

Brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory in respect of persons.

even as Sara obeyed Abraham and called him "Lord" - whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, not being afraid of every shadow.

Wives, submit your own selves unto your own husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke, with all commanding. See that no man despise thee.

Women: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

which is our righthand of God, and is gone into heaven: angels, power, and might subdued unto him.

But he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons.

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shalt not favour the poor nor honour the mighty, but shalt judge thy neighbour righteously.

See that ye know no man in judgment: but hear the small as well as the great and be afraid of no man, for the judgment is God's. And the cause that is too hard for you, bring unto me and I will hear it.'

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

Likewise these dreamers defile the flesh, despise rulers, and speak evil of them that are in authority.

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.