Every relationship needs to be based on respect. Since everyone wants to be respected, we all need to reciprocate that regard. Respect is effective in fostering long-lasting, happy relationships.
So that any relationship can be praiseworthy, husband and wife, parents, and kids all need respect. As the Lord has instructed us, we are to respect and honour all persons. Nobody should be treated with contempt, and doing so will make us think negatively.
We are new creatures in Christ and ought to treat everyone with respect if we want to enjoy our relationship.
Let’s read the following scriptures from the Bible to understand how crucial it is to maintain respect in all of our interactions.
Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Peter 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Titus 2:7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Ephesians 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
1 Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1 Peter 3:6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Ephesians 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
