13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother; and, He that curses father or mother shall surely be put to death.

For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and, He that curses father or mother shall surely be put to death.

You know the commandments, You shall not commit adultery; You shall not kill; You shall not steal; You shall not give false testimony; You shall not defraud; Honor your father and mother.

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

Receive him, therefore, in the Lord with all joy, and regard such as worthy of honor;

Now we beseech you, brethren, to have regard for those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, bestowing honor on the wife as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren: but rather let them serve them, because they who partake of the benefit of their service, are believers and beloved brethren. These things enforce in your teaching and exhortation.

But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

Therefore, having yet one son, his beloved, he sent him also to them last, saying, They will reverence my son.

And the owner of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps, when they see him, they will reverence him.

So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?