18 Bible Verses about Respect For People

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as LORD thy God commanded thee, that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. Thou shall not defraud. Thou shall honor thy father and mother.

Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,

Receive him therefore in Lord with all gladness, and hold such men esteemed.

And we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who labor among you, and who lead you in Lord, and who admonish you,

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

And those who have believing masters, let them not disparage them because they are brothers, instead let them serve more because they are believers and beloved--those who are recipients of the benefit. Teach and exhort these things

Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.

But finally he sent to them his son, saying, They will be made ashamed by my son.

Therefore, still having his one beloved son, he also sent him to them, last, saying, They will be made ashamed by my son.

And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will be made ashamed after seeing this man.

Besides, we indeed have had chastisers--the fathers of our flesh--and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live?

Thou shall be over my house, and according to thy word all my people shall be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than thou.