56 Bible Verses about Respect

Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

Domestic slaves, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to those [who are] good and gentle, but also to those [who are] unjust.

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

but set Christ apart [as] Lord in your hearts, always ready to [make] a defense to anyone who asks you [for] an accounting concerning the hope [that is] in you.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

and to esteem them beyond all measure in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

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

and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,

For the one who does wrong will receive back whatever wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, [and thus] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

And masters, do the same [things] to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, "Be seated here in a good place," and to the poor person you say, "You stand or be seated there by my footstool,"

And if you call on [him] [as] Father who judges impartially according to each one's work, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your temporary residence,

{a grim-faced nation} {who does not show respect} to [the] old and [the] young [and] does not show pity.

so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.

Then Moses became angry, and he said to Yahweh, "Do not notice their grain offering. I have not offered one donkey from them, and I have not mistreated one of them."

"A son honors [his] father, and a slave his master; but if I [am] a father, where [is] my honor, and if I [am] a master, where [is] my reverence?" says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, {who despise} my name. "But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

" '{Before} old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I [am] Yahweh.

Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever [circumstances] I am.

honor your father and your mother, and love your neighbor as yourself."

and God saw the {Israelites}, and God took notice.

And their testimony was not even consistent about this.

Fear Yahweh, my son, and the king; with those who change, do not associate.

For [there] is no partiality with God.

Pay to everyone [what is] owed: [pay] taxes to whom taxes [are due]; [pay] customs duties to whom customs duties [are due]; [pay] respect to whom respect [is due]; [pay] honor to whom honor [is due].

being subject to one another {out of reverence for} Christ

saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people.

He will not pay respect to the gods of his ancestors, or to [the] darling of women, and not to any god will he pay respect, for he will consider himself great over all [gods].

Husbands, in the same way live with [your wives] {knowledgeably}, as with the weaker female vessel, showing [them] honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'

{Showing partiality} [is] not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.

but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.

older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you.

Blessed [is] the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to [the] proud and [to those who] fall away [to] a lie.

You must not {be partial} {in your judgment}; hear [out] the small [person] as [also] the great [person]; {do not be intimidated by any person}, because the judgment [is] God's; and the case that is too difficult for you, bring [it] to me, and I will hear it [out].'

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Furthermore, we have had {our earthly fathers} who disciplined [us], and we respected [them]. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?

" 'You shall not do injustice in judgment; {you shall not show partiality to the powerless}; you shall not give preference {to the powerful}; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice.

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

The start of wisdom is fear of Yahweh, and knowledge of the Holy One, insight.

Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and rule over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Much in every way. For first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God

Deacons likewise [must be] dignified, not insincere, not devoted to much wine, not fond of dishonest gain,