31 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

Pay all of them their dues: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.

Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are overbearing.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the supreme authority,

For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God's ministers, attending to this very thing.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this with joy, and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

For he is God's servant to you for good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is God's servant, an avenger to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will have praise from him.

he is not to honor his father with it. Thus you have made the word of God of no effect for the sake of your tradition.

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

But we ask you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desire and despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones,

Not that we lord it over your faith; but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

Therefore he who resists the authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.

Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

My brethren, show no favoritism as you hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and are not frightened by any fear.

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Speak these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.

who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

For he who does wrong will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

"The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

Yet in the same way these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.