13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him 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),

So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor men like him,

But we ask you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with honor as the weaker partner, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

However, each one of you must also love his wife as himself, and the wife must see that she respects her husband.

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but they must serve them all the better, because those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these duties.

Last of all, he sent his son to them saying, 'They will respect my son,'

He still had one left to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?