31 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

attending upon the publick administration. render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, reverence to whom reverence, honour to whom honour.

of God. Be respectful to all, love your brethren, fear God, and honour the king.

for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in the practice of all piety and virtue;

You that are servants, be subject to your masters with all reverence: not only to such as are kind and gentle,

Be every one of you subject to the ruling powers. for every ruler holds of God: the rulers in being are constituted by God.

wherefore you ought to submit not only from an apprehension of punishment, but

and glorify God in the times of distress. be subject therefore, for the Lord's sake to every human establishment: whether it be to the king,

from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually

Confide in your guides, and be respectful: that they who are vigilant, as being accountable for your souls, may discharge themselves with cheerfulness, and not with anxiety, which would be to your prejudice.

for his administration is appointed by God for your good. but if you do wrong, you have reason to be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: he being the minister of God, to execute punishment upon malefactors.

rulers are not a terror to virtue, but to vice. would you then live without any dread of the civil power? do what is right, and you shall have his commendation.

thus have ye disannull'd the commandment of God by your tradition.

Admonish them to be subject to princes and to magistrates, to obey their orders, and to exert their virtue and loyalty upon all occasions.

We entreat you, brethren, to respect those, who labour in the ministry, who by divine appointment preside over you, and instruct you.

Be mutually obsequious with christian respect.

especially those, who prostitute themselves to sensual infamous passions: who despise magistrates, who being audacious, and insolent, intrepidly calumniate the higher powers;

not that I would arbitrarily prescribe what you should believe, but rather encourage you to go on: for 'tis by faith you have stood.

so that he who opposes the ruler, disobeys the orders of God: and will be punished too for resisting, by those very powers.

Children, obey your christian parents: for this is the law.

maintain an intire affection for them, upon account of their office, and don't form any brigues against them.

therefore the woman ought to be veil'd, out of regard to the angels.

My brethren, let not your christian profession be accompanied with partiality.

such was Sarah, who show'd her obeysance to Abraham, by stiling him her Lord: and you will be stiled her children, if you imitate her conduct, and are not to be terrified out of your virtue.

Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.

these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.

let married women be submissive to their husbands, out of regard to the Lord.

who being ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of God, where angels, dominations, and potentates have been subjected to him.

but he that does wrong shall be punish'd for his injustice: for no regard will be shown to the external characters of men.

when our natural parents corrected us, we gave them reverence: is it not much more reasonable to be in subjection to the father of spirits, in order to have life?

said, the Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's chair.

yet these visionary debauchees despise princes, and traduce dignitys.