27 Bible Verses about Social duties

"If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

"If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

"When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast 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 wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

"You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

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

the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight 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 the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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

"'And you shall not commit adultery.

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,

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

"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

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, "Feed my lambs."

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

"Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children--

You shall teach them diligently to your children, 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.

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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

and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike."

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you."

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a 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 measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.

"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid."

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful 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 of the land of Egypt.

A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread 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 is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

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."

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

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

For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

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

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

"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,

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.

And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.

Jesus wept.

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

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

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

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

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

For "Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

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

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.

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 is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.

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.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

"You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD.

You shall teach them diligently to your children, 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.

"When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

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

The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.

"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street."

and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

Let brotherly love continue.

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

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

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

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

"Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."

to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

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

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

And he answered them, "Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise."

"You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

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

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

But Ittai answered the king, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be."

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"

But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?"

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

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

For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin. And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,

"If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

But he turned and rebuked them.

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.

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.

Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

"Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers.

Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel."

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

"If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

He answered, "You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."

And Solomon said, "If he will show himself a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth, but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die."

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.

And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.

And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.