27 Bible Verses about Social duties

And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee [as] a stranger and a sojourner.

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,

She stretches out her hand to the poor, yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.

Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens.

Jesus said to him, If thou want to be perfect, go, sell the things being possessed by thee, and give to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,

Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in t

And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, that LORD thy God may bless thee in al

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

And the king loved Esther above all the women. And she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Neither shall thou commit adultery.

But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

These are men who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were out of men purchased by Jesus, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

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

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons--

And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

And ye shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Have thou found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

And as he discoursed about righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment going to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, Go now, and having a convenient time, I will summon thee.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the law of kindness is on her tongue.

Now therefore fear ye not. I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

By long-suffering a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men.

Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law.

I solemnly testify before God, and Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen agents, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shall not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but thou shall judge thy neighbor in righteousness.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment. Ye shall hear the small and the great alike. Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you ye shall bring to me, and I will hea

These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.

These also are from the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Stand ye therefore having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Therefore having put off falsehood, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, because we are body-parts of each other.

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall feed and lay down, and none shall make them afraid.

The lips of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.

Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

If thou see the donkey of him who hates thee lying under his burden, thou shall refrain leaving him. Thou shall surely release [it] with him.

If thine enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of Lord.

For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you ye also should do.

For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

Not because we have no right, but that we might give ourselves an example to you, in order to imitate us.

And he said to his men, LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, LORD's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, since he is LORD's anointed.

Nevertheless in the same way also these men who dream, indeed defile flesh, and reject lordship, and speak evil of dignities.

Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.

Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher, for there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God, are those that have been instituted.

Thou shall not revile the gods, nor {speak maliciously (LXX/NT)} of a ruler of thy people.

with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,

so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.

And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

Thou shall follow that which is altogether just, that thou may live, and inherit the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

Thus says LORD, Keep ye justice, and do righteousness. For my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice.

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shall surely bring it back to him again.

Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head.

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t

And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king himself also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.

Jesus wept.

and many of the Jews had come to the women, about Martha and Mary, so that they might console them about their brother.

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,

But do not forget benevolence and fellowship, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers.

So then as we have time, let us work what is good toward all men, and especially toward those belonging to a household of the faith.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against thee, leave not thy place, for deference allays great offences.

But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.

If possible from you, keeping peace with all men,

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.

He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.

but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.

All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He shall maintain his cause in judgment,

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Therefore men, cheer up, for I believe God, that it will be so in that way it has been told to me.

And they all, having become encouraged, also took food.

Is any man weak among you? Let him summon the elders of the congregation, and let them pray near him, having anointed him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t

Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it!

naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me.

And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion.

Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.

Do not rebuke an elder man, but entreat him as a father, younger men as brothers, elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

The king who faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.

And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

When thy son asks thee in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which LORD our God has commanded you?

then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,

your speech always with grace seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.

And on another day we put in at Sidon. And Julius, who treated Paul kindly, allowed him to undergo care, after going to his friends.

Now among the things around that place were fields of the chief of the island, named Publius, who, having received us kindly, lodged us three days.

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

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of LORD. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward each other, and toward all men, just as also we toward you,

Let brotherly love abide.

If ye indeed fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well.

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.

Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye may know that I am LORD your God.

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing,

Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but joy is to the counselors of peace.

So then we should pursue the things of peace, and the things of constructiveness for each other.

Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) [He is] a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.

to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the ruler of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

I ate no pleasant bread. Neither flesh nor wine came into my mouth. Neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon.

Sell things possessed by you, and give charity. Make for yourselves purses not becoming old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts.

Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.

And having answered, he says to them, He who has two coats, let him share with him not having, and he who has food, let him do likewise.

Thou shall not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Thou shall give him his hire in his day, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against thee to LORD, and it be sin to thee.

If thine enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days.

It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor in whatever thy brother stumbles against, or is caused to stumble, or becomes weak.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

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

And many women were there watching from afar, who followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him, among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Now late on the Sabbath day, being dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.

And Ittai answered the king, and said, As LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there thy servant will also be.

a man who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all propriety

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

And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not, for who can put forth his hand against LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?

And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,

For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love

I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep,

For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.

And the foreigners presented uncommon kindness to us, for, having kindled a fire, they received us all because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,