27 Bible Verses about Social duties

And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, be he stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.

If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need;

She stretcheth out her hand to the afflicted, and she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

Jesus said to him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell what thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.

When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

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

And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment.

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place.

and the Levite for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.

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

And Isaac led her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after the death of his mother.

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

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

But I say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb wheresoever it goes. These have been bought from men as first-fruits to God and to the Lamb:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

When therefore they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and 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 that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons),

and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

She surveyeth the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,

and when the king's edict which he shall make shall be heard throughout his realm for it is great all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

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

He that loveth mirth shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee; and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.

And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

A soft answer turneth away fury; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and upon her tongue is the law of kindness.

And now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to them.

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.

By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, and in measure of capacity: just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing by favour.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the lowly, nor honour the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;

The remnant of Israel shall not work unrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.

Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

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

The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving it to him: thou shalt certainly loosen it with him.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is good to the unthankful and wicked.

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

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

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:

not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

And he said to his men, Jehovah forbid that I should do this thing to my master, Jehovah's anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the anointed of Jehovah.

Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.

Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.

Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above him. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God.

Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince amongst thy people.

as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;

Perfect justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and possess the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Thus saith Jehovah: Keep ye judgment and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt certainly bring it back to him.

If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you,

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth;

And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over; the king also himself passed over the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed over, towards the way of the wilderness.

Jesus wept.

and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in distributing, disposed to communicate of their substance,

But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offences.

But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.

if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile;

He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

To him that asks of thee give, and from him that desires to borrow of thee turn not away.

but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him, and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need, in that which he lacketh.

all the day he is gracious and lendeth, and his seed shall be a blessing.

It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is good to the unthankful and wicked.

These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.

A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that thus it shall be, as it has been said to me.

And all taking courage, themselves also took food.

Is any sick among you? let him call to him the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

And Elisha fell sick of his sickness in which he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, My father, my father! the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof!

naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.

And king Joram returned to be healed in Jizreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab at Jizreel, for he was sick.

Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and shalt honour the face of an old man; and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren, elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

A king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.

and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

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

Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

And the next day we arrived at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and suffered him to go to his friends and refresh himself.

Now in the country surrounding that place were the lands belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius, who received us and gave us hospitality three days in a very friendly way.

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

Let brotherly love abide.

If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the Christ.

But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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

ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God.

Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

Blessed the peace-makers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

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

And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not pollute himself with the king's delicate food, nor with the wine which he drank; and he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not have to pollute himself.

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

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

Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.

To him that asks of thee give, and from him that desires to borrow of thee turn not away.

And he answering says to them, He that has two body-coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, neither rob him. The wages of the hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

And there were there many women beholding from afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to him, among whom was Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Now late on sabbath, as it was the dusk of the next day after sabbath, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary to look at the sepulchre.

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

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

conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

Let the ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting their children and their own houses well:

And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah'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? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of 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 that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

But the barbarians shewed us no common kindness; for, having kindled a fire, they took us all in because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.

Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;