38 Bible Verses about Duty

He must not increase his herd of horses. He must not send the people to return to Egypt to get more horses. For Jehovah said to you: You should never again return that way.

The king establishes the land by justice. He who receives gifts overthrows it.

The king who faithfully judges the poor will have his throne established forever.

The God of Israel has spoken. The protector of Israel said to me: 'The king who rules with justice, who rules in obedience to God.

He told the judges: Be careful when you make your decisions in court. Remember these are Jehovah's people. He will know the judgements you decide.

A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to the wife he has married.

Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.

The man said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called 'Woman.' This is because she was taken out of Man. This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

She watches over her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

When the king's order is made public through all his great kingdom all the wives will give honor to their husbands, great as well as small.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

I am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.

Curse Meroz, says Jehovah's angel: Curse those who live there. They did not come to help Jehovah. They did not come as soldiers to fight for him.

Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

When they asked if some group out of the tribes of Israel had not gone to the gathering at Mizpah, they found out that no one from Jabesh in Gilead had been there.

Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their masters.

They have not been your servants in their kingdom! In all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them they have not turned away from their evil doing.

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.

In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.

We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves.

I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.'

If you see your enemy's cow or donkey running loose, take it back to him.

Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.

I say love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!

If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook them,

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.

When you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture: You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

Do not seek revenge. Never hold a grudge against any of your people. Instead, love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am Jehovah.

The second is you should love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these. (Leviticus 19:18)

Love works no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love is the law's fulfillment.

We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.

Cry aloud! Do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram's horn. Tell my people about their rebellion and the descendants of Jacob about their sins.

Warn your relatives living in other cities about every case they bring to you, even if the case involves bloodshed or commandments, rules, or regulations derived from the law. Then your relatives will not become guilty in front of Jehovah. Otherwise, he will become angry with you and your relatives. Do this and you will not be guilty of anything.

When I tell a wicked man that he will surely die, but you do not warn him or speak out so that he can change his wicked way in order to save his life; that wicked man will die because of his sin. I will hold you responsible for his death.

But if you warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.

David left Asaph and his relatives to serve continually in front of the Ark of Jehovah's Covenant, as the daily work required.

Jehovah said to Moses: I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky for all of you. The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. In this way I can test them to find out if they will follow my instructions.

As Solomon's father David had directed, he set up the divisions of priests for their service and the divisions of Levites for their appointed places. The Levites were to lead in praising Jehovah and to serve beside the priests by doing whatever needed to be done each day. Solomon also set up divisions of doorkeepers at every gate because this was what David, the man of God, had commanded.

They celebrated the Festival of Booths according to what is written. Each day they offered the sacrifices required for that day.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

In the future your son will ask you: 'What is the meaning of these laws and regulations that Jehovah our God has commanded you?'

His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house? When you see the naked, should you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Do for others the same as you would have them to do for you. That is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.

Do not seek revenge. Never hold a grudge against any of your people. Instead, love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am Jehovah.

The King will say to those on his right hand: 'Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.' read more.
The righteous will answer him: 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and dress you? When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' The King will answer: 'To the extent that you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me.' Then he will tell those on his left: 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the ever-burning fire that is prepared for the Devil and his [fallen] angels. I was hungry and you did not feed me. I was thirsty and you did not give me drink. I was a stranger and you did not take me in. I was naked and you did not dress me. I was sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' They will also ask: 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison and not minister to you?' The King will answer: 'To the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of my brothers, you did not do it to me.' These will go away into ever-burning fire (everlasting cutting off) (death) (total destruction) (doom) (punishment) (everlasting penalty), but the righteous to everlasting life.'

A lawyer stood up to test him. He asked: Teacher what shall I do to inherit everlasting life? He said: What is written in the law? How do you read it? He answered: Love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your life, with all your strength and with all your mind. (Feelings and total existence) (Might and total thinking capacity) And you should love your neighbor as yourself. (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Leviticus 19:18) read more.
He told him: You answered correctly, do this and you will live. Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: Who is my neighbor? Jesus answered: A man traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho. He fell among robbers. They stripped him, beat him and left him half dead. A priest traveled on that road. When he saw him he passed by on the other side. When a Levite came to the place he saw the man and passed by on the other side. Then a Samaritan arrived where he was. He was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him. The next day he paid the host two shillings. He said take care of him and if you spend more I will repay you when I return. Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers? He said: The one who showed mercy to him. Jesus said to him: Go and you do like wise.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.

Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.

You should continue to love one another as brothers.

When you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture: You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

Do not oppress your neighbor and do not rob him. Do not fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.

Pay him his wages on the workday day before the sunsets. He is poor and sets his heart on it. He will not complain against you to Jehovah and it becomes your sin.

See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone. But follow that which is good, both among you, and to all men. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. read more.
In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophesying. Prove all things; hold fast to what is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. May the very God of peace completely sanctify you (make you holy). I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he who calls you. He will also make it happen. Brothers, pray for us. Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. I charge you by the Lord that this letter is to be read to all the brothers. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia. He witnessed to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

We cannot stop speaking the things we have seen and heard.

I am compelled by the spirit to go to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there.

We all, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror the glory of God and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as from God's Spirit.

Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely (extremely) (deeply) from the heart.

Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil and cling to good.

For the Law code says: You must not commit adultery, you must not murder, you must not steal, you must not bear false witness, and you must not covet. If there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you must love your neighbor as yourself.

My eyes grow weak because of my suffering. All day long I call out to you, O Jehovah. I stretch out my hands to you in prayer.

Every day I will bless you. I will praise your name forever and ever.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Though I preach the good news I do not brag about it. Preaching the good news is my duty (obligation) and I must do it! It would be terrible if I did not preach the good news!

Love those who are aliens. For you were also aliens in the land of Egypt.

The Spirit and the bride say: Come And let him who hears say: Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him drink the water of life freely.

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, respecting God.

Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time. Be holy in all your conduct, just as the one who called you is holy.

Masters, give your servants that which is just and equal. You know that you also have a Master in heaven.

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

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

Take firm hold of instruction and do not let go. Obey her for she is your life.

He who wants to save his life will lose it. He who is willing to lose his life for my sake will find it.

But if I say: I will not remember him or speak anymore in his name, then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in. I cannot endure it.

The second like it is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

You masters, do the same things to them. Do not threaten! You know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven. There is no favoritism with him.

Day by day, from the first day till the last, he read from the book of the Law of God. They kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.

Blessed is the man who listens to me. He watches daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle master but also to the hard to please.

I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of Jehovah.

See that you make them like the pattern for them that were shown to you on the mountain.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. You received without paying, now give without being paid.

According to the gift you have received, minister among yourselves, as good stewards of the increased grace (divine influence) (love) of God.

If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let them come to me for refuge. Let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, and said do business with this until I return.

I have given you an example. You should also do as I have done to you.

In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.

I have a baptism to experience and I am distressed until it is accomplished!

This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

All men will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.

So I will always sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day.

Servants should to be in subjection to their masters (overseers) (employers). They should please them in all things and not talk back.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

He told them all: If any man would come after me let him deny himself. Let him take up his stake (of self-denial) daily, and follow me.

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah has spoken! Who will not prophesy?

We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. When the night comes no man can work.

I am mindful of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

Jehovah blessed Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father's early life and did not worship Baal.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

Jehoshaphat carefully followed the example his father Asa had set and did what Jehovah considered right.

He did what Jehovah considered right, as his father Amaziah had done.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

In the future your son will ask you: 'What is the meaning of these laws and regulations that Jehovah our God has commanded you?'

His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.

Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.

one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,