13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die,'

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'

You know the commandments, 'Do not kill,' '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, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),

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

And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with them according to knowledge, assigning honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each one, so love his own wife, as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

And let those having believing masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the more, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

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

He had yet one, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will pay deference to my son.'

"And the lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my son, the beloved; perhaps they will reverence him.'

Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?