Bible Verses About Respect for Law

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

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.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.