27 Bible Verses about Social duties

"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you 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 opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

"Be careful that you do not do your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you 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 assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

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

The man said, "This at last is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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

You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge;

Thus says the LORD: "Execute 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 foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, 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 our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

A loving doe and a graceful deer?let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

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

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

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

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

"And you shall not commit adultery.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

"I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to 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 saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;

and you shall teach them diligently to 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.

You shall teach them your children, talking 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.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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

But to the married I command?not I, but the Lord?that the wife not leave her husband

Wives, be subject 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.

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

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

Now therefore do not be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.

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

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

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it."

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

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

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."

Truth's lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.

Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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

Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

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

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, do not leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.

Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

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

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

not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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

Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

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

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are appointed by God.

"You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; outdo one another in showing honor;

that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ?

Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

You shall follow that which is altogether just, 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 near 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 is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

But I tell you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

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

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

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

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.

Many of the Jewish people had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

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

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

But do not forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

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

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

If anyone thinks himself to be religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

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

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Give to him who asks you, and do not turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

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

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

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up. I have overcome the world."

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Therefore, sirs, cheer up. For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

Is any among you sick? 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 had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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 its horsemen."

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.'

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. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.

Do not withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and did not dare show you my opinion.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

"'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

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

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

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the LORD.

and you shall teach them diligently to 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.

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you mean?"

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

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

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

The next day, we landed at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

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 shall make known your truth to the children.

Arise, cry out in the night, at 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 also do toward you,

Let brotherly love continue.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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

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

Now therefore please be careful and drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

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

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

I had no pleasing food, neither meat nor wine came into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

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

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

Give to him who asks you, and do not turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."

"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

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

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.

And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

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

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 is, whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be."

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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

David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?"

David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to 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 your obedience to the truth in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from a pure heart fervently:

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

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

For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help 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 you both had compassion on them that were in chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an enduring one.

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,