27 Bible Verses about Social duties

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

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

Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

When a man hath 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 cheer up his wife which he hath 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 thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Live joyfully 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 this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye 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, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

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

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; 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 unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour 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 shalt thou commit adultery.

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

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto 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; why then should I think upon a maid?

So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith 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 thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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 empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, 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 loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what 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 filled therewith, and vomit it.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

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

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but 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 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 speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

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

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

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

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; 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 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 abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

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

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

A just weight and balance are the LORD'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 his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

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

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye 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 thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt 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 speaketh.

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 ye should do as I have done to you.

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

Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample 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 mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour 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.

Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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

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

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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

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

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

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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

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

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

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt 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 which 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 thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

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 not I 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 communicate;

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

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye 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 rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, 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 riot or unruly.

If it be possible, as much as lieth 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 seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth 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 thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

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

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye 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 ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Wherefore, 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 meat.

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 was fallen sick of his sickness whereof 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 ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye 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 thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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 very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

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

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

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

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

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

Whoso stoppeth 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? saith the LORD.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD 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 ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

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

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

In the same quarters were possessions 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 thee, as I do 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 thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top 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 ye fulfil 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 mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

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

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities 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 liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

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

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, 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 counsellers of peace is joy.

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

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth 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 thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, 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 bread, neither came flesh 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 hath a devil.

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto 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 good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

And, ye 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, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.

In 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 sepulchre.

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 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.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

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, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye 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 ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

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

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye 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 ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.