13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother."

honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise),

Give him a welcome in the Lord, then, with your hearts full of joy. Value men like that,

Brothers, we beg you to respect those who are working among you, presiding over you in the Lord and maintaining discipline;

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

However, let every man of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.

Those who have Christian believers as their masters must not take liberties with them because they are brothers; they must be all the better servants because those who get the good of their service are believers and beloved. This is what you are to teach and preach.

Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said.

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

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

Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live?