What Does the Bible Say About Show Respect?

1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

James 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

James 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Romans 1:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Acts 17:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...

Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Mark 10:1-52 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ...

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.

Genesis 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth

Romans 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For God shows no partiality.

26 Bible Verses about Show Respect

1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:1-52 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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26 Bible Verses about Show Respect

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1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:1-52 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote