18 Bible Verses about Social duties

But take heed that you do not your righteousness before the people, in order to be seen by them: else you have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens:

Jesus said to him, If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

But I say unto you that every one looking on a woman in order to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

These are they who have not been defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he may go. They have been redeemed from men, the first fruit unto God and the Lamb.

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

Then when they took breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter; Simon, the son of Jonah, dost thou love me with divine love more than these? He says to Him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee as a friend. He says to him; Feed my lambs.

in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband

Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

And he reasoning concerning righteousness and temperance and the coming judgment, Felix, being alarmed, responded, Go thy way for this time; and having received an opportunity, I will call for thee:

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Returning to no one evil for evil; providing things beautiful in the sight of all men.

Owe no man anything, but to love one another with divine love: for the one loving another with divine love has fulfilled the law.

I testify before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you must guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

These are querulous grumblers, going forth according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaking swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,

Therefore, having laid aside lying, speak the truth each one with his neighbors: because we are members of one another.

Moreover love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest: because He is good to the ungrateful and wicked.

See that no one may return evil for evil to any one; but always pursue good toward one another, and toward all.

But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head.

By faith Abel offered up to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received the witness that he was righteous, God witnessing to his gifts: and through it he having died is still speaking.

Brethren, receive the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering evil and longsuffering.

For I have given unto you an example, that you may also do as I have done to you.

For unto this you have been called: because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you may follow in his steps:

not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us.

Likewise indeed these dreamers also pollute the flesh, and reject lordship, and blaspheme glories.

Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except that which is from God; and the existing authorities have been ordained of God.

kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

that the trial of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, however being tried by the fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,

But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies with a divine love, bless those who curse you and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you:

Jesus wept.

And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother.

that they do good, be rich in good works, be cheerful givers, ready communicators;

But do not forget benefaction and fellowship: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

I have shown you all things, that it so behooveth you laboring to assist the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

communicating to necessities of the saints; pursuing hospitality.

Then therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily persuaded, full of mercy and of good works, free from partiality and hypocrisy.

if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.

If possible, so far as it is within your power, living in peace with all men;

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification, without which no one shall see the Lord:

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

For let the one wishing to love life, and to see good days, cease his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile:

Give to the one asking thee, and do not turn away from the one wishing to borrow from thee.

Moreover love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest: because He is good to the ungrateful and wicked.

I have spoken these things to you, in order that you may have peace in me. In the world you have tribulation: but take courage; I have conquered the world.

Therefore cheer up, O men: for I believe God, that it shall be according to the manner which He has spoken to me.

And all becoming cheerful, themselves also took food.

Is any one sick among you? 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.

was naked, and ye clothed me: was sick, and ye visited me: was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers: the elderly women as mothers; the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

And finally, all being like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, merciful, humble:

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.

And on the following day we disembarked at Sidon; and Julius, treating Paul kindly, permitted him having gone to his friends to receive their benefactions.

But in the regions around about that place there were farms belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius: who, having received us, entertained us courteously three days.

and the Lord fill you and cause you to superabound in divine love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also do towards you;

Let brotherly love continue.

If indeed you keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself, you do well.

Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

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

But we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Blessed are the peacemakers: because they shall be called the sons of God.

Then therefore we pursue the things belonging to peace, and edification towards one another.

to be prudent, chaste, domestic, good, submissive to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

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

Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves purses that will not get old, and treasure in the heavens which can not be stolen, where the thief does not draw nigh, nor the moth corrupt.

Give to the one asking thee, and do not turn away from the one wishing to borrow from thee.

And responding he says to them, Let the one having two coats, give to him having none, and let the one having food do likewise.

it is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles.

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

And fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.

And many women were there looking on from a distance, who followed Jesus from Galilee to minister unto Him, among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

And late on the Sabbath-day, on the dawn toward the first of the Sabbaths, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the sepulcher.

ruling his own house beautifully; having children in subordination with all gravity;

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses beautifully.

Having purified your souls through obedience of the truth unto unhypocritical, brotherly love, fervently from the heart love one another with divine love:

Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.

Let love be free from hypocrisy. Abhorring the evil, cleaving to the good:

For, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet, and if there is any other commandment, it is fulfilled in this word, in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself with divine love.

I have shown you all things, that it so behooveth you laboring to assist the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

For you suffered along with the prisoners, and received with joy the spoliation of your goods, knowing that you have a better and abiding possession.

And the barbarians extended no small philanthropy to us: for, having kindled a fire, they received us all to it, on account of the recent rain and cold.

And finally, all being like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, merciful, humble:

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not spare: for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for the children,

And He turning, rebuked them.

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Here, moreover, it is required among stewards, that every one must be found faithful.

Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because frequently he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And, ye masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: knowing that their Master and yours is in the heavens, and that there is no respect of persons with him.

And a certain Samaritan, on a journey, came near him: and seeing, had compassion on him, and having come to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine: and having mounted him on his own beast, carried him to a tavern, and cared for him.

Remember those bound, as having been bound along with them; those suffering persecutions, as you yourselves being also in the body.

And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, unto the testimony of those things which shall be spoken;

who laid down their neck for my life; and for whom not I alone hut all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;

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

in this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you may have divine love one with another.

And taking them that hour of the night, he washed the blood from their stripes; and he and his were baptized immediately:

Then Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow-disciples; Let us go too, that we may die with Him.

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that the hour has come when He must depart out of this world to His Father, having loved His own who were in the world, with divine love, He loved them perfectly.

For he shall be great before the Lord; and he shall not drink wine and strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from the womb of his mother.

in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,