27 Bible Verses about Social duties

'And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

'When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;

Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy.

Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;

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

When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and one doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and the man saith, 'This is the proper step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken; therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

and the king loveth Esther above all the women, and she receiveth grace and kindness before him above all the virgins, and he setteth a royal crown on her head, and causeth her to reign instead of Vashti,

and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after the death of his mother.

And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years.

'Thou dost not commit adultery.

but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

'Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

She is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

and the sentence of the king that he maketh hath been heard in all his kingdom -- for it is great -- and all the wives give honour to their husbands, from great even unto small.'

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Whoso is loving mirth is a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee, And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.

Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, 'For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.

The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.

Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

'Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good.

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

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

The remnant of Israel do no perversity, nor speak lies, Nor found in their mouth is a deceitful tongue, For they have delight, and have lain down, And there is none troubling.

The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.

Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.

'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it -- thou dost certainly leave it with him.

If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.

'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;

'For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

and he saith to his men, 'Far be it from me, by Jehovah; I do not do this thing to my lord -- to the anointed of Jehovah -- to put forth my hand against him, for the anointed of Jehovah he is.'

In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

'God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Righteousness -- righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Thus said Jehovah: 'Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness, For near is My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.'

To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

'When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

And all the land are weeping -- a great voice, and all the people are passing over; and the king is passing over through the brook Kidron, and all the people are passing over on the front of the way of the wilderness;

Jesus wept.

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

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

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.

All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

Good is the man -- gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.

A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,

and all having become of good cheer, themselves also took food,

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

And Elisha hath been sick with his sickness in which he dieth, and come down unto him doth Joash king of Israel, and weepeth on his face, and saith, 'My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen.'

naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.

and Joram the king turneth back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds with which the Arameans smite him in Ramah, in his fighting with Hazael king of Aram, and Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah hath gone down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he is sick.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: -- Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then it is well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place,

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

on the next day also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit him, having gone on unto friends, to receive their care.

And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge us;

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

Let brotherly love remain;

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I am Jehovah your God.

And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing,

Happy the peacemakers -- because they shall be called Sons of God.

Deceit is in the heart of those devising evil, And to those counselling peace is joy.

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated with thee, and have hated thee.

And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.

desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.

'For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon;

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

and he answering saith to them, 'He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.'

'Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.

Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

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

And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,

and Jonathan addeth to cause David to swear, because he loveth him, for with the love of his own soul he hath loved him.

And Ittai answereth the king and saith, 'Jehovah liveth, and my lord the king liveth, surely in the place where my lord the king is -- if for death, if for life, surely there is thy servant.'

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

Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

And David saith unto Abishai, 'Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?'

And David saith, 'What -- to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I am king over Israel?'

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

for, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,