27 Bible Verses about Social duties

‘Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

“If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;

She extends her hand to the poor,
And she stretches out her hands to the needy.

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.

“You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge.

Thus says the Lord, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

As a loving hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be exhilarated always with her love.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.

‘You shall not commit adultery.

but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

“I have made a covenant with my eyes;
How then could I gaze at a virgin?

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

“Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.

You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

She looks well to the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

When the king’s edict which he will make is heard throughout all his kingdom, great as it is, then all women will give honor to their husbands, great and small.”

But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

He who loves pleasure will become a poor man;
He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you, And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite.

Have you found honey? Eat only what you need,
That you not have it in excess and vomit it.

But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you.”

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

A gentle answer turns away wrath,
But a harsh word stirs up anger.

She opens her mouth in wisdom,
And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

So therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples,
That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,
And a soft tongue breaks the bone.

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
But a just weight is His delight.

'You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity. 'You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.

‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

These also are sayings of the wise.
To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.

“The remnant of Israel will do no wrong
And tell no lies,
Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;
For they will feed and lie down
With no one to make them tremble.”

Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is only for a moment.

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
But a just weight is His delight.

“Can I justify wicked scales
And a bag of deceptive weights?

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

A just balance and scales belong to the Lord;
All the weights of the bag are His concern.

“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.

“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.

For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,

not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.

So he said to his men, “Far be it from me because of the Lord that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed.”

Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.

Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.

“You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;

so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Thus says the Lord,
“Preserve justice and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come
And My righteousness to be revealed.

To do righteousness and justice
Is desired by the Lord more than sacrifice.

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in 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,

“Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
Or exulted when evil befell him?

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one 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 comfort him.

While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.

Jesus wept.

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.

So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

If the ruler’s temper rises against you, do not abandon your position, because composure allays great offenses.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.

The one who guards his mouth preserves his life;
The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue,
Guards his soul from troubles.

Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;
He will maintain his cause in judgment.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face,
But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.

A joyful heart is good medicine,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one 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 comfort him.

When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, 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!”

naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’

So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not desire his death.

Do not hold back discipline from the child,
Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

He who withholds his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

So Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite spoke out and said,
“I am young in years and you are old;
Therefore I was shy and afraid to tell you what I think.

Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

‘You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.

Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

If a king judges the poor with truth,
His throne will be established forever.

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.

“He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then it was well.
Is not that what it means to know Me?”
Declares the Lord.

You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’

then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;

Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends and receive care.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us courteously three days.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

“It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

“Arise, cry aloud in the night
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint because of hunger
At the head of every street.”

and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;

Let love of the brethren continue.

If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;

Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.

he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing.

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
But counselors of peace have joy.

So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

“Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become weary of you and hate you.

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

I did not eat any tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

“Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.

Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.”

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.

You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the Lord and it become sin in you.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

Many women were there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee while ministering to Him. Among them was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.

Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life.

But Ittai answered the king and said, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be.”

He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity

Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.

But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be without guilt?”

David then said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be an adversary to me? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel today?”

Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

For this, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold, they kindled a fire and received us all.

To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

They in turn gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy quarried stone and timber for couplings and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin. The men did the work faithfully with foremen over them to supervise: Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites of the sons of Merari, Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites, and the Levites, all who were skillful with musical instruments.

"If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free. "When you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed. "You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.