13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

For although Moses said, Honor your father and mother, and Let him who curses father or mother suffer death,

You know the commandments. Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat, honor your father and mother."

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold in honor men like him;

I entreat you, brothers, to acknowledge those who are toiling among you and are your leaders in the Lord, and give you counsel.

In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

Those whose masters are Christian believers must not treat them with disrespect, because they are brothers; nay, rather slave for them the better because those who get the benefit of their services are believing and beloved. Continue to teach and preach this.

And last he sent his son to them; 'Surely they will respect my son,' he said.

He had still one, a Son beloved, He sent him last to them, saying, "'They will reverence my Son.'

"Then the master of the vineyard said: "'What shall I do? I will send my beloved Son; it may be that they will reverence him.'

Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?