27 Bible Verses about Social duties

And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you; then you shall help him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.

If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother:

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

Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus said unto him, If you will be perfect, go and sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

And Adam 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 shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you perform under the sun.

You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger, nor the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as pledge:

Thus says the LORD; Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

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

And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained grace and favor 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 went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Neither shall you commit adultery.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.

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

I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maiden?

So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me more than these? He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love you. He said unto him, Feed my lambs.

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

Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;

And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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

That they may teach the young women to be sensible, to love their husbands, to love their children,

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

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you: And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.

And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient time, I will call for you.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

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

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

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.

By long patience is a prince persuaded, and a gentle tongue breaks the bone.

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

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

But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

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

I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

You shall not respect persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, holding men in admiration for the sake of advantage.

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have partiality in judgment.

Stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

These are the things that you shall do; Speak you every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

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

The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

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

A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.

You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its burden, and would refrain to help him, you shall surely help with him.

If your 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, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

For even to this were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:

Not because we have not that right, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.

And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of the glorious ones.

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

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.

You shall not revile God, nor curse the ruler of your people.

Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

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

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Thus says the LORD, Keep justice, and do righteousness: for my salvation is soon to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

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

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

Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you;

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn 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 brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

Jesus wept.

And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to share;

But to do good and to share forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, leave not your post; for yielding pacifies great offences.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of rebellion or unruly.

If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

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

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.

But you shall open your hand wide unto him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.

He is ever merciful, and lends; and his descendants are blessed.

A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Therefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some food.

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

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Now Elisha had fallen sick of his sickness of which he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came unto me.

And king Joram went back 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 in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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

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

Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.

He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

You shall rise up before the gray headed, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.

Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brothers; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

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

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.

And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has 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, having compassion one with another, love as brethren, be tender hearted, be courteous:

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

And the next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius courteously treated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.

In the same place were lands of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

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

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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

Let brotherly love continue.

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

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

Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

We then that are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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

You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace there is joy.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.

Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as sheol, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people:

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house; lest he be weary of you, and so hate you.

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

I ate no pleasant food, neither came meat nor wine in 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 what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses which grow not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.

Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.

He answered and said unto them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.

You shall not defraud your neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with you all night until the morning.

Each day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you unto the LORD, and it be sin unto you.

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

Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days.

It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Therefore, if food makes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat while the world stands, lest I make my brother to stumble.

And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

And many women were there beholding afar off, who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.

At the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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

One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all respect;

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

And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

For you had compassion on me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring possession.

And the native people showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

Finally, be all of one mind, having compassion one with another, love as brethren, be tender hearted, be courteous: