7 Bible Verses about Social Life

Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,

and said, "My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the town square."

So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder,

Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.

King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.

So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.

So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them.

And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.

And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, "The LORD be with you!" And they answered, "The LORD bless you."

And he came to her and said, "Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!"

And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"

And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD."

And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you

and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.

But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem.

Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.

"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him

To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

"If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own 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 no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Is anyone 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 upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, "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.'

And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.

On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,

If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.

"The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.'

So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give your place to this person,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther's feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.

Then he came up and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife."

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.

but they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them.

And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.

And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.

One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.

And when they saw it, they all grumbled, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."

Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.