31 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

Pay promptly to all men what is due to them: taxes to those to whom taxes are due, toll to those to whom toll is due, respect to those to whom respect is due, honour to those to whom honour is due.

Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

including kings and all who are in high station, in order that we may live peaceful and tranquil lives with all godliness and gravity.

Household servants, be submissive to your masters, and show them the utmost respect--not only if they are kind and thoughtful, but also if they are unreasonable.

Let every individual be obedient to those who rule over him; for no one is a ruler except by God's permission, and our present rulers have had their rank and power assigned to them by Him.

We must obey therefore, not only in order to escape punishment, but also for conscience' sake.

Submit, for the Lord's sake, to every authority set up by man, whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler,

Why, this is really the reason you pay taxes; for tax-gatherers are ministers of God, devoting their energies to this very work.

Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.

For he is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do what is wrong, be afraid. He does not wear the sword to no purpose: he is God's servant--an administrator to inflict punishment upon evil-doers.

For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you.

he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition.

Remind people that they must submit to the rulers who are in authority over them; that they must obey the magistrates, be prepared for every right action,

Now we beg you, brethren, to show respect for those who labour among you and are your leaders in Christian work, and are your advisers;

and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;

Not that we want to lord it over you in respect of your faith--we do, however, desire to help your joy--for in the matter of your faith you are standing firm.

Therefore the man who rebels against his ruler is resisting God's will; and those who thus resist will bring punishment upon themselves.

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

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

That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol of subjection, because of the angels.

My brethren, you must not make distinctions between one man and another while you are striving to maintain faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our glory.

Thus, for instance, Sarah obeyed Abraham, acknowledging his authority over her. And you have become Sarah's children if you do what is right and permit nothing whatever to terrify you.

Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.

Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

who is at God's right hand, having gone into Heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

"The Scribes," He said, "and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses.

Yet in just the same way these dreamers also pollute the body, while they set authority at naught and speak evil of dignities.