Quotes About Respect

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.

In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

Honor the widows who are truly widows.

Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that Godís name and our teaching will not be discredited.

Those who have believing masters should not show disrespect because they are brothers, but should serve them all the more, since those receiving their good service are beloved believers. Teach and encourage these principles.

And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.

to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

to malign no one, and to be peaceable and gentle, showing full consideration to everyone.

So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

Furthermore, 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?

My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”

Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

Submit yourselves for the Lordís sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,