56 Bible Verses about Respect

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1 Peter 2:18

Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable.

1 Corinthians 12:23

and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

James 2:9

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

James 2:3

and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,”

Deuteronomy 28:50

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

James 2:1

My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

Numbers 16:15

Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord, “Do not regard their offering! I have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them.”

Malachi 1:6

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

Mark 14:59

Not even in this respect was their testimony consistent.

Luke 18:2

saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.

Daniel 11:37

He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.

Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is not good,
Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

Genesis 4:5

but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Romans 3:2

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

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Respect » Due to rulers

1 Samuel 24:6

So he said to his men, “Far be it from me because of the Lord that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed.”

Jude 1:8

Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.

Respect » Due to religious leaders

Respect » Due to the aged

Job 32:6

So Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite spoke out and said,
“I am young in years and you are old;
Therefore I was shy and afraid to tell you what I think.

1 Timothy 5:1-2

Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Respect » To one another

Respect » Who the lord does not respect

Job 37:23-24

"The Almighty--we cannot find Him; He is exalted in power And He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness. "Therefore men fear Him; He does not regard any who are wise of heart."

Respect » Who the lord respects

Psalm 138:6

For though the Lord is exalted,
Yet He regards the lowly,
But the haughty He knows from afar.

Respect » Those that do not respect the proud

Respect » To the aged

Respect » To an army

Luke 14:10

But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.

Respect » To rulers

Proverbs 25:6

Do not claim honor in the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of great men;

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Attitudes Of Respect

Deuteronomy 10:12-13

Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Respect, For Environment

Psalm 24:1-2

A Psalm of David.
The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains,
The world, and those who dwell in it.

Respect, For Human Beings

Genesis 9:5-6

Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

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