18 Bible Verses about Respect For People

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

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

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of 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 give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"

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

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

"'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

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

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

The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect him.'

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."