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Bible Verses About Respect
Find Bible verses about respect — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about respect?
The Bible addresses respect with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Ephesians 5:33
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
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Hebrews 12:9
“Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”
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Job 34:19
“Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.”
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Isaiah 8:13
“Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.”
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Proverbs 22:28
“Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.”
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Malachi 1:6
“"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my n...”
Genesis 23:6
“"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."”
Luke 20:13
“The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'”
Matthew 21:37
“But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'”
Leviticus 19:32
“"'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.”
Leviticus 19:3
“"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.”
Isaiah 17:7
“In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.”
Ezekiel 36:21
“But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.”
Job 29:10
“The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.”
Psalms 40:4
“Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.”
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1 Timothy 5:1 — “Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;...”
Mark 12:6 — “Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my...”
Leviticus 26:9 — “"'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covena...”
Job 29:9 — “The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth....”
Job 29:22 — “After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them....”
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