Also, disrespect for Jehovah is shown by disrespect for his appointed servants, which can be caused by presumptuousness.

The apostle Peter speaks of some who show great disrespect for God and his anointed servants, describing them as “daring [from Greek tol·me·tesʹ, “presumptuous,” KJ], self-willed, they do not tremble at glorious ones but speak abusively.” Such men, Peter says, “suffer destruction in their own course of destruction.”​—2Pe 2:10, 12.