The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Respecting Elders

  • Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
  • Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children ...
  • The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by ...
  • Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
  • But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to ...
  • The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
  • Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
  • Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
  • My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the ...
  • Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
  • And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to ...
  • Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of ...
  • The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.