Teaching Children Respect- Key Bible Verses to Use

Teaching young children and the next generation to live in a way that God intended is one of the most important jobs for parents and other adults today. Christian adults and parents should get there guidance from the Bible when teaching children about any topic. Respect is a great virtue to teach children today and there are many key Bible Verses to help your youngster to learn to respect. Feel free to use this as a Bible Study for a small group. Please add any other helpful Bible Verses to teach children about respect to the comments so this may become an even better resource for those that find it.

Ten Key Bible Verses to Use for Teaching Children Respect

Philippians 2:3- Teaching Children Respect- Being Humble

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself;

Romans 12:10- Teaching Kids Respect- Love

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;

Romans 13:7 - Teaching Children Respect- Honor

Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Philippians 4:11 - Teaching Children to Respect Others- Contentment

Not that I speak from want; for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

Matthew 7:12 - Teaching Children Respect- The Golden Rule

"Therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Hebrews 13:17 - Teach kids respect by obeying spiritual leaders

Obey your leaders, and submit to them; for they keep watch over your souls, as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Ephesians 6:1-3 -Teaching Children Respect- Obey and Honoring Parents

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

Parenting Bible Verses

Proverbs 1:8- Teaching Children Respect- Listening

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, And do not forsake your mother's teaching;

1 Timothy 5:1-2 - Teaching Children Respect- Learn from Older people

Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - Teaching Children Respect- How to treat your body

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

As you teach your children about respect, read through these Bible Verses with them and ask them what they mean. Children first need to respect God and the word of God and then the Bible is a great tool for parents to teach children from. I pray that these Bible Verses were helpful and that you can use them to teach a child in your life about respect.

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New American Standard Bible