28 Bible Verses about Duty

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers,

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

For my part, as far as you are concerned, my brothers, I am convinced that you are already full of goodness of heart, endowed with perfect knowledge, and well qualified to instruct one another.

I do not write this to you to make you ashamed, but for your instruction as my dear children.

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.

We beg you, brothers, warn the idlers, cheer up the despondent, keep hold of the weak, be patient with everybody.

And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, so as to win the overscrupulous; I have become everything to everybody, so as by all means to save some of them.

We beg you, brothers, warn the idlers, cheer up the despondent, keep hold of the weak, be patient with everybody.

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

It is the duty of us who are strong to put up with the weaknesses of those who are immature, and not just suit ourselves.

For when I was hungry, you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger, you invited me to your homes, when I had no clothes, you gave me clothes, when I was sick, you looked after me, when I was in prison, you came to see me.'

No! If your enemy is hungry, feed him! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! For if you do, you will heap burning coals upon his head!

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,

If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right,

And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

It is the duty of us who are strong to put up with the weaknesses of those who are immature, and not just suit ourselves. Everyone of us must try to please his neighbor, to do him good, and help in his development.

We beg you, brothers, warn the idlers, cheer up the despondent, keep hold of the weak, be patient with everybody.

Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world. For when I was hungry, you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger, you invited me to your homes, when I had no clothes, you gave me clothes, when I was sick, you looked after me, when I was in prison, you came to see me.' read more.
Then the upright will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and give you food, or thirsty, and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger, and invite you home, or without clothing, and supply you with it? When did we see you sick or in prison, and go to see you?' The king will answer, 'I tell you, in so far as you did it to one of the humblest of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.' Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels! For when I was hungry, you gave me nothing to eat, and when I was thirsty you gave me nothing to drink, when I was a stranger, you did not invite me home, when I had no clothes, you did not supply me, when I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me.' Then they in their turn will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or in need of clothes, or sick, or in prison, and did not wait upon you?' Then he will answer, 'I tell you, in so far as you failed to do it for one of these people who are humblest, you failed to do it for me.' Then they will go away to everlasting punishment, and the upright to everlasting life."

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?" Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?" He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' " read more.
Jesus said to him, "You are right. Do that, and you will live." But he, wishing to justify his question, said, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be going that way, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side of the road. And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side. But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon him, and when he saw him he pitied him, and he went up to him and dressed his wounds with oil and wine and bound them up. And he put him on his own mule and brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.' Which of these three do you think proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?" He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Go and do so yourself!"

May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,

Your love for the brotherhood must continue.

If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right,

Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always try to treat one another and everybody with kindness. Always be joyful. Never give up praying. read more.
Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do. Do not stifle the Spirit. Do not disregard the utterances it inspires, but test them all, retaining what is good and avoiding every kind of evil. May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes. He who calls you can be relied on, and he will do this. Brothers, pray for us. Greet all the brothers with a sacred kiss. I charge you in the Lord's name to have this letter read to all the brothers. The blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

By the time Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed in preaching the message, emphatically assuring the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."

I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there,

And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

managing his own house well, and keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful??5 for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God?

The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.

Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.

"Come," say the Spirit and the bride. Let everyone who hears this say, "Come!" Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wants it come and take without cost living water.

You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant, but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct,

You who are masters must treat your slaves justly and fairly, and remember that you have a Master too, in heaven.

All who are under the yoke of slavery must treat their masters with the greatest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,

For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it.

There is a second like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'

You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality.

You servants must be submissive to your masters and perfectly respectful to them; not only to those who are kind and considerate, but also to those who are unreasonable.

Cure the sick, raise the dead, heal lepers, drive out demons. Give without payment, just as you received without payment.

Whatever the endowment God has given you, use it in service to one another, like good dispensers of God's varied mercy.

but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin.

And he called in ten of his slaves and gave them each twenty dollars and told them to trade with it while he was gone.

For I have set you an example, in order that you may do what I have done to you.

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am till it is over!

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

Tell slaves always to obey their masters and try to please them, not to oppose them

so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers,

And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

of being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that was seen first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice; I am sure it is in you also.

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.

managing his own house well, and keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful??5 for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God?

The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers,