4 Bible Verses about Social Life

So they picked them up and filled twelve baskets with the pieces that were left from the five barley loaves, which were more than the eaters wanted.

So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus.

Then Levi gave a great reception for Him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax-collectors and others who were at table with them.

Then Jesus met them Himself, and said, "Good morning!" And they went up to Him and clasped His feet, and worshiped Him.

So the angel came to her home and said, "Congratulations, you highly favored woman! The Lord be with you!"

For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I now warn you, as I have done before, that those who practice such things shall not be heirs of the kingdom of God.

But they would not receive Him, because He was facing in the direction of Jerusalem.

Do the opposite. If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for if you act in this way, you will heap burning coals upon his head!

But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "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 does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.

It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves. Each one of us must practice pleasing his neighbor, to help in his immediate upbuilding for his eternal good.

must have a reputation for doing good deeds, as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any sort of doing good.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

always supplying the needs of God's people, ever practicing hospitality.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

Do not remain neglectful of hospitality to strangers, for by it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Is anyone sick among you? He should call in the elders of the church, and they should pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord,

when I needed clothes you put them on me, when I was sick you looked after me, when I was in prison you came to see me.'

So he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and his heart was moved with pity for him, and he ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him affectionately.

Greet one another with a consecrated kiss. All the churches of Christ wish to be remembered to you.

Then Mary took a pound of expensive perfume, made of the purest oil, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair; and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter danced before the guests. Herod was fascinated by her,

If some unbelieving heathen invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question for conscience' sake.

So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

"The kingdom of heaven is like a king, who gave a wedding reception for his son. And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding reception, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other slaves, and said to them, 'Tell the invited guests that I have my reception all ready, my bullocks and fatlings are butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding reception!'

Then let us stop criticizing one another; instead, do this, determine to stop putting stumbling blocks or hindrances in your brother's way.

While He was at table in the house many tax-collectors and notorious sinners came in and took their seats at table with Jesus and His disciples.

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding supper, never take the best place, for someone of greater distinction than you may have been invited, so that your host may not come and say to you, 'Make room for this man'; and then in embarrassment you will proceed to take and keep the lowest place.

From one forefather He made every nation of mankind, for living all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,

Now as they were journeying on, He came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him to her house.

but they earnestly urged Him, and said, "Stop and stay with us, for it is getting toward evening and the day is nearly spent." So He went in to stay with them.

Then looking around at the people sitting about Him, He said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.

One Sabbath, when He went to take a meal at the house of a Pharisee who was a member of the council, they continued to watch Him closely.

While He was in Bethany, He was a guest in the home of Simon the leper, and as He was sitting at table, a woman came in with an alabaster bottle of pure nard perfume, very costly; she broke the bottle and poured the perfume on His head.

Now one of the Pharisees invited Him to take dinner with him. So He came to the Pharisee's house and took His place at the table.

And when they all saw it, they began to grumble and say, "He has gone in to lodge with a notorious sinner!"

Jesus and His disciples, too, were invited to the wedding.

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.