Thematic Bible: Social duties to regard all men as brothers
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Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Duty to enemies
" 'If you come upon the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you will certainly bring it back to him
But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."
But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Verse Concepts
Forgiveness, Application Ofevil, believers' responses toGrace, In Human RelationshipsMaliceOpposition, To Sin And EvilPersecution, Attitudes ToPrayer, For OthersReconciliation, Between BelieversSuffering SaintsIntercessory PrayerPersecution, Christian ResponseDuties To EnemiesDifferent TeachingsLove Your Neighbour!Praying For Sinners
"If I have rejoiced at [the] ruin of [the one who] hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him--
While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad
If your enemy [is] hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water. For coals of fire you will heap upon his head, and Yahweh will reward you.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Duty of neighbours
However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge [against] {your fellow citizens}; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I [am] Yahweh.
The second [is] this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love [is the] fulfillment of the law.
But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Visitation of the sick
Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the elders of the church and they should pray over him, anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.
Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.
Elisha became ill with the illness with which he would die, so Jehoash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!"
I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you came to me.'
Joram the king returned to Jezreel to heal from the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted at Ramah when Hazael king of Aram fought him. Ahaziah the son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he [was] ill.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A common father
{Do we not all have} one father? Has not one God created us? Why [then] are we unfaithful {to one another}, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?
Rich and poor have [much] in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Demands self-sacrifice
Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat {forever}, in order that I may not cause my brother to sin.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Forbids harsh judgment
Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A blood relationship
And he made from one [man] every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining [their] fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation,
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A spiritual kinship
And looking around at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
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