18 Bible Verses About Respect, Starting With the One That Tells You to Stand Up



  • Respect in Scripture is physical before it is emotional: Leviticus 19:32 tells Israel to stand up when an old person enters the room.
  • Ephesians 6:2 points out that “honour your father and mother” is the only one of the ten commandments with a promise attached.
  • 1 Peter 3:7 says a husband’s prayers are hindered by how he treats his wife, and calls her an heir with him in the same sentence.
  • “Honour the emperor” was written when the emperor was Nero, which makes respect something other than a judgement about desert.
  • 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 removes self-ownership and raises the body’s value in one breath, ruling out both contempt for it and possessiveness about it.

In Scripture, respect is something we do with our bodies before it is something we feel. “Stand up in the presence of the aged,” says Leviticus, and the command is physical: we are to get to our feet when an old person comes into the room. That is the shape of the subject throughout. Respect in the Bible is not an attitude we hold privately but a set of visible actions — standing, listening, speaking well, declining to be harsh…

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