Bible verses about Respect
Verses about honouring parents, elders and every person.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Exodus 20:12Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:18You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:32Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:22The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 15:33Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 18:12The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:4“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
Malachi 1:6In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 22:39Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
Romans 12:10Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
Romans 13:1Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Romans 13:7Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
Galatians 6:10Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Ephesians 6:2Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.
1 Thessalonians 4:12Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,
1 Timothy 5:1older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
1 Timothy 5:2Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
1 Timothy 5:17Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
Hebrews 12:9Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
1 Peter 2:17Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
1 Peter 3:7