Bible verses about "respect" | WNT

¹⁰ On the contrary, when you are invited go and take the lowest place, that when your host comes round he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' This will be doing you honour in the presence of all the other guests.

⁹ Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right. ¹⁰ As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another. ¹¹ Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

³⁴ Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said, "that God makes no distinctions between one man and another; ³⁵ but that in every nation those who fear Him and live good lives are acceptable to Him.

⁷ to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages; ⁸ while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress, ⁹ coming upon the soul of every man and woman who deliberately does wrong--upon the Jew first, and then upon the Gentile; ¹⁰ whereas glory, honour and peace will be given to every one who does what is good and right--to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. ¹¹ For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions. ¹² For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned whilst living under the Law, will be judged by the Law. ¹³ It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law who will be pronounced righteous. ¹⁴ For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, are a Law to themselves; ¹⁵ since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence-- ¹⁶ on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it.

¹ Let every individual be obedient to those who rule over him; for no one is a ruler except by God's permission, and our present rulers have had their rank and power assigned to them by Him. ² Therefore the man who rebels against his ruler is resisting God's will; and those who thus resist will bring punishment upon themselves. ³ For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you. ⁴ For he is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do what is wrong, be afraid. He does not wear the sword to no purpose: he is God's servant--an administrator to inflict punishment upon evil-doers. ⁵ We must obey therefore, not only in order to escape punishment, but also for conscience' sake. ⁶ Why, this is really the reason you pay taxes; for tax-gatherers are ministers of God, devoting their energies to this very work. ⁷ Pay promptly to all men what is due to them: taxes to those to whom taxes are due, toll to those to whom toll is due, respect to those to whom respect is due, honour to those to whom honour is due.

¹² For we have not the 'courage' to rank ourselves among, or compare ourselves with, certain persons distinguished by their self-commendation. Yet they are not wise, measuring themselves, as they do, by one another and comparing themselves with one another. ¹³ We, however, will not exceed due limits in our boasting, but will keep within the limits of the sphere which God has assigned to us as a limit, which reaches even to you. ¹⁴ For there is no undue stretch of authority on our part, as though it did not extend to you. We pressed on even to Corinth, and were the first to proclaim to you the Good News of the Christ. ¹⁵ We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour, ¹⁶ and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you, not boasting in another man's sphere about work already done by him.

¹² Now we beg you, brethren, to show respect for those who labour among you and are your leaders in Christian work, and are your advisers; ¹³ and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

²⁵ The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.

² Therefore the man who rebels against his ruler is resisting God's will; and those who thus resist will bring punishment upon themselves.

⁷ and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

¹⁷ Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

³ Do nothing in a spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but, with true humility, let every one regard the rest as being of more account than himself;

¹⁰ As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

¹² Everything, therefore, be it what it may, that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for in this the Law and the Prophets are summed up.