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 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,
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 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;
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink: for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Duty of neighbours
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
"'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
Love does not harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Now 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 that which is good, to be building him up.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Visitation of the sick
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.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A common father
Do we not all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is the maker of them all.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Demands self-sacrifice
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Forbids harsh judgment
Therefore let us not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A blood relationship
He made from one every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A spiritual kinship
And looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Look, my mother and my brothers.
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