31 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

In all cases pay what is due from you--tribute where tribute is due, taxes where taxes are due, respect where respect is due, and honor where honor is due.

Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'

especially for kings and all who are in high positions, in order that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in a deeply religious and reverent spirit.

Those of you who are domestic servants should always be submissive and respectful to their masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are arbitrary.

Let every one obey the supreme Authorities. For no Authority exists except by the will of God, and the existing Authorities have been appointed by God.

You are bound, therefore, to obey, not only through fear of God's punishments, but also as a matter of conscience.

Submit to all human institutions for the Lord's sake, alike to the emperor as the supreme authority,

This, too, is the reason for your paying taxes; for the officials are God's officers, devoting themselves to this special work.

Obey your Leaders, and submit to their control, for they are watching over your souls, as men who will have to render an account, so that they may do it with joy, and not in sorrow. That would not be to your advantage.

For they are God's servants appointed for your good. But, if you do what is wrong, you may well be afraid; for the sword they carry is not without meaning! They are God's servants to inflict his punishments on those who do wrong.

A good action has nothing to fear from Rulers; a bad action has. Do you want to have no reason to fear the Authorities? Then do what is good, and you will win their praise.

He is in no way bound to honor his father.' In this way you have nullified the words of God on account of your traditions.

Remind your hearers to respect and obey the Powers that be, to be ready for every kind of good work, to speak ill of no one, to avoid quarreling,

We beg you, Brothers, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord's service, and give you counsel.

And submit to one another from reverence for him.

especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,

I do not mean that we are to dictate to you with regard to your faith; on the contrary, we work with you for your true happiness; indeed, it is through your faith that you are standing firm.

Therefore he who sets himself against the authorities is resisting God's appointment, and those who resist will bring a judgment upon themselves.

Children, obey your parents, as children of the Lord; for that is but right.

Hold them in the very greatest esteem and affection for the sake of their work. Live at peace with one another.

And, therefore, a woman ought to wear on her head a symbol of her subjection, because of the presence of the angels.

My Brothers, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the worship of rank?

as Sarah did, who obeyed Abraham, and called him master. And you are her true children, as long as you live good lives, and let nothing terrify you.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.

Speak of all this, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let any one despise you.

Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord.

who has gone into Heaven, and is at God's right hand, where Angels and Archangels and the Powers of Heaven now yield submission to him.

Those who do wrong will reap the wrong they have done; and there will be no partiality.

Further, when our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Shall we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of souls, and live?

"The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.

Yet in the very same way these men, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the Mighty.