56 Bible Verses about Respect
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But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.
Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked.
In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.
And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:
Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:
And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;)
And what we think to be less honourable of the body, upon these we put more abundant honour; and our unseemly parts have more abundant decorum.
And he acting with injustice shall be taken care of for what he did unjustly: and there is no distinction of persons.
And if ye make distinction of faces, ye work sin, being convicted under the law as transgressors.
And, lords, do ye the same things to them, letting go threatening: knowing that also your own Lord is in the heavens; and distinction of persons is not with him.
Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ;
And ye look toward him bearing the brilliant clothing, and ye say to him, Sit thou well here; and to the beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:
A nation strong of face who shall not lift up the face to the old man, and shall not compassionate the young.
That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing.
Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory, with distinction of faces.
And it will be kindled to Moses greatly, and he will say to Jehovah, Thou wilt not turn to their gift: not one ass did I take from them, and I did not evil to one of them.
A son will honor the father, and the servant his lord; and if I a father, where mine honor? and if I their lord, where my fear? said Jehovah of armies to you, O priests despising my name. And ye said, In what did we despise thy name?
From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.
Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.
Honour thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king: thou shalt not intermingle with those changing:
Therefore restore debts to all; to whom tribute, tribute; to whom recompense, recompense; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour.
Saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city, fearing not God, and not occupied about man:
And concerning the God of his fathers he shall not understand, and concerning the desire of women, and concerning every god he shall not understand; for he shall magnify himself over all.
Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die.
To look upon faces is not good and for a morsel of bread the man will transgress.
And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall.
And I turned to you and I made you fruitful, and I multiplied you, and I set up my covenant with you.
Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.
Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it
As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:
Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?
Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.
The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, and the knowledge of the holy ones is understanding.
And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you;
Much according to every manner: for truly first were they trusted with the oracles of God.
And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;
Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;
From Thematic Bible
Respect » Due to rulers
And he will say to his men, Far be it to me from Jehovah if I shall do this word to my lord, to the Messiah of Jehovah, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the Messiah of Jehovah.
And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.
Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God.
Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people.
Respect » Due to religious leaders
Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed.
Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.
Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:
And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.
Respect » Due to the aged
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge.
Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.
From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.
An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Respect » To one another
In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.
Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.
Respect » Who the lord does not respect
The Almighty we found not: great of power and judgment, and much justice, he will not afflict For this, men shall fear him: he will not see all the wise of heart.
Respect » Who the lord respects
If Jehovah is high, and he will see the humble one: and the lofty one he will know from far off.
Respect » Those that do not respect the proud
Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.
Respect » To the aged
From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.
Respect » To an army
But when thou art called, having gone, recline in the last place; that when he having called thee come, might say to thee, Friend, mount up higher; then shall honour be to thee beore them reclining with thee.
Respect » To rulers
Thou shalt not show thyself proud before the king, and thou shalt not stand in the place of the great.
Topics on Respect
Attitudes Of Respect
Deuteronomy 10:12-13And now, Israel, what does Jehovah thy God ask from thee but to fear Jehovah thy God, to go in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Respect For Old People
Leviticus 19:32From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.
Respect For People
Exodus 20:12Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.
Respect, For Environment
Psalm 24:1-2To David chanting. To Jehovah the earth and its fulness, the habitable globe and they dwelling in it.
Respect, For God's Character
Psalm 29:2Give to Jehovah the glory of his name; worship to Jehovah in the splendors of his holy place.
Respect, For Human Beings
Genesis 9:5-6And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man.
Related Topics
- Authority, of human institutions
- Being Content
- Being Gay
- Brothers Love
- Children, attitudes towards
- Christians
- Commitment, to God's people
- Fathers, Responsibilities Of
- Favouritism
- Fear God!
- Fearing God
- God, Impartiality Of
- Honour The Honourable
- Honouring Parents
- Human Authority, Christian Response
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