18 Bible Verses about Respect For People

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."

For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother." And, "Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death."

You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and your mother.

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

Therefore receive him in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor,

And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you,

Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.

And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers. But rather let them serve, because they are faithful and beloved, those of the good service receiving in return. Teach and exhort these things.

You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah.

But last of all he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son.

Therefore, still having one son, his own beloved, he also sent him to them last of all, saying, They will respect my son.

And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect him when they see him.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

You shall be over my house, and all my people shall kiss the hand at your word. Only in the throne will I be greater than you.