18 Bible Verses about Respect For People
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“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.
‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’;
You know the commandments, ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”
Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in high regard;
But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction,
You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
Those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and preach these principles.
‘You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.
But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
The owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’
Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
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