31 Bible Verses about Respecting Authority

Render therefore to all what is their due: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, reverence to whom reverence, honor to whom honor.

Give due honor to all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

particularly for kings, and all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and virtue.

Ye who are servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and mild, but also to the morose:

Let every soul be subject to the powers that are over them: for there is no such power but from God: the powers that are over men, are appointed by God.

Wherefore it is necessary to submit, not only on account of punishment, but also of conscience.

Be subject therefore to every human form of government, for the Lord's sake: whether it be to a king as supreme;

For you pay them tribute also for this reason; because they are God's ministers, continually attending hereunto.

Be ruled by those that are your guides, and submit to them: for they watch for your souls; (as those that must give an account) that they may do it with joy and not with uneasiness: for this were unprofitable for you.

for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou dost evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is also the minister of God, as an avenger to execute his wrath upon the malefactor.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldest thou then not be afraid of the civil power? do what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

and so honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. And thus have ye made void the commandment of God by your tradition.

Admonish them to be submissive to governors and magistrates, to obey their orders, and to be ready to every good work;

And we entreat you, brethren, to respect those that labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and instruct you;

submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of God.

especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority; who, being audacious and self-willed, are not afraid to speak evil of dignities:

not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

So that he who resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive condemnation.

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

and to esteem them very highly in love, on account of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

For this reason ought the woman to have power on her head, because of the angels.

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, in a partial respect of persons.

whose daughters ye are, if ye do well, and are not terrified with any sinful fear.

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as becometh you in the Lord:

These things speak, and exhort; and reprove offenders with all authority: that none may despise thee.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord:

who is gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to Him.

but he that doth unjustly, shall receive for what wrong he hath done; and there is no respect of persons with God:

Now if we had fathers of our flesh, who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

The scribes and pharisees sit in the seat of Moses:

So these vile dreamers also defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of dignities.