13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God commanded saying, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that revileth father or mother, let him be put to death:

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that revileth father or mother, let him be put to death:

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honour thy father and thy mother.

Honour thy father and thy mother, (which is the first commandment with promise,)

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in high esteem:

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

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, yielding due respect to the wife as the weaker vessel, and as joint-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife reverence her husband.

and let not those who have believing masters, despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them more readily, because they are faithful and beloved by God, partakers of his grace.

At last he sent unto them his Son, saying, They will reverence my Son.

Having yet therefore one Son, his beloved, he sent him also at last unto them, saying, they will reverence my Son.

Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: perhaps when they see Him they will reverence Him.

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?