27 Bible Verses about Social duties

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John 4:7

A woman of Samaria comes to draw water: Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.

Exodus 18:20

And teach them the laws and the precepts and make known to them the way they shall go in it, and the work which they shall do.

Leviticus 19:1

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying,

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Social duties » Almsgiving, general advice concerning

Leviticus 25:35

And when thy brother shall be poor, and his hand wavering with thee, hold fast to him; a stranger and sojourner to live with thee.

Deuteronomy 15:7

When the needy shall be among thee, from one of thy brethren, in one of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, and thou shalt not shut thy hand from thy needy brother.

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Husbands' duties

Genesis 2:23-24

And the man will say, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; and this shall be called woman, because she was taken from man. Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

See life with the wife which thou didst love all the days of the life of thy vanity which he gave to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for this thy portion in life, and in thy labor which thou laborest under the sun.

Social duties » Compassion » Duty to widow and fatherless

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place.

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the Levite came (because no portion and inheritance to him with thee) and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy gates, and ate and were satisfied; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.

Social duties » Compassion » Conjugal love

Proverbs 5:19

The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.

Esther 2:17

And the king will love Esther above all the women, and she will receive favor and mercy before him above all the virgins; and he will set the crown of the kingdom upon her head, and he will cause her to reign instead of Vashti.

Genesis 24:67

And Isaak will come into Sarah's his mother's tent, and will take Rebekah and she will be to him for a wife; and he will love her: and Isaak will be comforted after that for his mother.

Genesis 29:30

And he will go in also to Rachel, and he will also love Rachel more than Leah, and he will serve with him yet other seven years.

Social duties » Brotherly love » Chastity

Revelation 14:4

There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb.

Social duties » Parental parental duties » Instruction of children

John 21:15

Then, when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » Wives' duties

Esther 1:20

And the decree of the king which he shall make being heard in all his kingdom, (for it is great,) and all the women shall give honor to their husbands, to the great and even to the small.

Social duties » Temperance pr 23; isa 5; 28; da 1 » General references to

Proverbs 23:1-2

If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

Proverbs 25:16

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Kind words

Genesis 50:21

And now ye shall not fear: I will give you to eat, and your little ones. And he will comfort them, and will speak to their hearts.

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Honesty in business, encouraged

Leviticus 19:35-36

Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure. Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:15

A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just

Social duties » Of impartiality » Partiality forbidden

1 Timothy 5:21

I call to witness before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that thou watch these things without preference, doing nothing by bending.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Deuteronomy 1:17

Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.

Proverbs 24:23

Also these to the wise. To look upon the face in judgment is not good.

Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » Truthfulness

Zechariah 8:16

These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates.

Zephaniah 3:13

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, and they shall not speak falsehood: and in their mouth shall not be found a tongue of deceit: for they shall feed and lie down, and none terrifying.

Proverbs 12:19

The lip of truth shall be prepared forever: and the tongue of falsehood while I shall wink.

Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights

Leviticus 19:36

Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of returning good for evil, encouraged

Exodus 23:5

If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.

More verses: Matthew 5:44 Luke 6:27

Social duties » Mercifulness » Of good example

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel brought near a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he was testified of to be just, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaks.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

More verses: 1 Timothy 4:12 Titus 2:7

Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » To honour rulers

1 Samuel 24:6

And he will say to his men, Far be it to me from Jehovah if I shall do this word to my lord, to the Messiah of Jehovah, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the Messiah of Jehovah.

Jude 1:8

And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Kindness, encouraged

More verses: 1 Peter 1:5-6

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Justice, encouraged

Deuteronomy 16:20

Justice, justice shalt thou follow, so that thou live and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus said Jehovah, Watch ye judgment and do justice; for my salvation drew near to come, and my justice to be uncovered.

More verses: Romans 13:7

Social duties » Compassion » Duty to enemies

Exodus 23:4

If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him.

Job 31:29

If I shall rejoice in the destruction of him hating me, and I exalted when evil found him:

More verses: Proverbs 25:21-22

Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Human, examples of

Job 2:11

And the three friends of Job will hear all this evil coming upon him, and they will come, a man from his place:: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they will appoint to come together to deplore for him, and to comfort him.

2 Samuel 15:23

And all the land weeping with a great voice, and all the people passing over: and the king passed over upon the torrent Kidron, and all the people passing over upon the face of the way to the desert

John 11:19

And many of the Jews were come to them about Martha and Many, that they might console them for their brother.

More verses: Luke 23:27 Psalm 35:14

Social duties » Benevolence, the duty of » Paul's exhortation

Social duties » Parental parental duties » Peaceableness, the righteous cultivate the spirit of

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of him ruling shall go up against thee, thou shalt not leave thy place; for quietness will put down great sins.

Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of restraining the tongue

Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of lending

Deuteronomy 15:8

For opening, thou shalt open thy hand to him, and lending, thou shalt lend him a sufficiency for his want which he shall want

Psalm 37:26

All the day he compassionates and lends; and his seed to be blessed.

Social duties » Brotherly love » Cheerfulness, the duty of

Acts 27:25

Wherefore, O men, be cheerful: for I believe God, that so it shall be as he has spoken to me.

Acts 27:36

And all being cheerful, these also received food.

Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » Visitation of sick

Job 2:11

And the three friends of Job will hear all this evil coming upon him, and they will come, a man from his place:: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they will appoint to come together to deplore for him, and to comfort him.

2 Kings 13:14

And Elisha was sick with his sickness which he will die in it. And Joash king of Israel will come down to him and weep over his face, and say, My father! my father the chariot of Israel and its horsemen

2 Kings 8:29

And king Jehoram will turn back to be healed in Jezreel from the blows which the Aramites will strike him in Ramah in his fighting with Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab, in Jezeel, for he was sick.

Social duties » Parental parental duties » The correction of children

Social duties » Parental parental duties » Reverence for aged, general references to

Job 32:6

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge.

1 Timothy 5:1-2

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Justice » The poor » Encouraged

Proverbs 29:14

The king judging the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

Social duties » Parental parental duties » To teach

Deuteronomy 6:20

When thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying, What the testimonies and the laws and the judgments which Jehovah our God commanded you?

Deuteronomy 21:19

And his father and his mother laid hold on him and brought him to the old men of his city, and to the gate of his place;

Social duties » Compassion » Courtesy, general references to

Acts 27:3

And another day we were brought down to Sidon. And Julius having treated Paul affectionately, gave him up, having gone to his friends to obtain care.

Acts 28:7

And with them about that place was landed property to the first of the island, by name Publius; who having received us, lodged us with friendship three days.

Social duties » Parental parental duties » To train

Isaiah 38:19

The living; the living, he shall praise thee, as from me this day the father to the sons shall make known for thy truth.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry aloud in the night: at the head of the watches pour out thy heart as water before the face of Jehovah: lift up thy hands to him for the soul of thy young children fainting with hunger in the head of all the streets.

Social duties » Brotherly love » Abounding

Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Burden-bearing

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Law from the nazarites

Numbers 6:3

From wine and strong drink he shall be separated; vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he shall not drip and the steeping of grapes he shall not drink, and grapes fresh and dry, he shall not eat

Deuteronomy 29:6

Bread ye ate not, and wine and strong drink ye drank not; so that ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.

Social duties » Parental parental duties » Peacemaking

Social duties » Of home-keeping » Admonitions concerning abiding at home

Habakkuk 2:5

And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples.

Proverbs 25:17

Make rare thy foot from thy neighbor's house, lest he shall be satiated with thee, and hate thee.

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Daniel's temperance principles

Daniel 1:8

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

Daniel 10:3

Bread of desires I ate not, and flesh and wine came not into my mouth, and anointing, I did not anoint myself even to the filling up of three weeks of days.

Social duties » Benevolence, the duty of » Christ's commands

Social duties » Masters' duties » Prompt payment of wages

Deuteronomy 24:15

In his day thou shalt give his hire, and the sun shall not go down upon it, for he is poor, and he lifted up his soul to it; and he will cry against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.

Social duties » Benevolence, the duty of » The wise man's advice

Ecclesiastes 11:1

Send forth thy bread upon the face of the waters, for in a multitude of days thou shalt find it

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Brotherly love demands

Social duties » Parental parental duties » To nurture

Social duties » Compassion » Mary magdalene and other women

Matthew 27:55-56

And many women were there, beholding from far off, who followed Jesus out of Galilee, serving him: Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

Social duties » Compassion » Jonathan

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan will add to cause David to swear in his loving him; as loving his soul he loved him.

2 Samuel 15:21

And Ittai will answer the king, and say, Jehovah lives, and my lord the king lives, for surely in the place where my lord the king shall be, there whether for death, whether for life, for there will thy servant be.

Social duties » Parental parental duties » To control

1 Timothy 3:12

Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses.

Social duties » Mercifulness » Of david

1 Samuel 26:9

And David will say to Abishai, Thou shalt not destroy him: for who stretching forth his hand against Jehovah's Messiah, and being innocent?

2 Samuel 19:22

And David will say, What to me, and to you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye shall be to me for an adversary? Shall there this day be a man put to death in Israel? Did I not know that this day I am king over Israel?

Social duties » Brotherly love » Fervent

Social duties » Brotherly love » Sincere

Romans 13:9

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet; and if any other command in this word it is summed up, in it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Helpfulness

Social duties » Compassion » The barbarians

Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Visitation of the needy

Social duties » Fidelity in business » The workmen under hilkiah

2 Chronicles 34:11-12

And they will give to the artificers and to the builders to buy stones and woods for junctions, and to frame the houses which the kings of Judah destroyed. And the men doing in the work in faithfulness: and over them being appointed Jahath and Obadiah the Levites from the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam from the sons of the Kohathites to superintend; and the Levites all understanding in instruments of song.

Social duties » Benevolence, the duty of » Moses injunction

Deuteronomy 15:12-14

When thy brother a Hebrew, or Hebrewess, shall be sold to thee, and serving thee six years; in the seventh year thou shalt send him away free from thee. And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. Furnishing, thou shalt furnish to him from thy sheep and from thy threshing floor, and from thy wine vat: with which Jehovah thy God blessed thee thou shalt give to him.

Social duties » Parental parental duties » To provide for

Social duties » Mercifulness » Of Christ

Luke 9:55

And having turned he censured them, and said, Ye know not of what sort Of spirit ye are.

John 8:7

And when they continued asking him, having lifted up the head, he said to them, Let him faultless among you, first cast a stone at her.

Social duties » Compassion » Constancy, examples of

Ruth 4:16

And Naomi will take the child and put him in her bosom, and she will be to him for nurse.

Social duties » Compassion » Certain leaders in israel

2 Chronicles 28:15

And men who were distinguished by names will rise up and will lay hold upon the captivity, and all their naked they clothed from the spoil, and they will clothe them, and shoe them, and feed them, and give them to drink, and anoint them, and conduct them upon asses for all being weak, and bring them to Jericho the city of palm trees, near their brethren: and they will turn back to Shomeron.

Social duties » Brotherly love » Impartial

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Required of stewards

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Encouraged upon the priests

Leviticus 10:9

Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations.

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The wise man's injunction

Proverbs 23:31

Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses.

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Nehemiah's treasurers

Nehemiah 13:13

And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah from the Levites: and upon their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah: for they were reckoned faithful: and upon them to divide out to their brethren.

Social duties » Masters' duties » Just dealing

Social duties » Mercifulness » Of saul

1 Samuel 11:13

And Saul will say, A man shall not die in this day, for this day Jehovah made salvation in Israel.

Social duties » Compassion » Onesiphorus

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for many times he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my perplexity:

Social duties » Brotherly love » Unselfish

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The law of the rechabites

Jeremiah 35:6

And they will say, We shall not drink wine: for Jonadab, son of Rechab our father, commanded to us, saying, Ye shall not drink wine, ye and your sons even to forever.

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Rule for kings

Proverbs 31:4

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink:

Social duties » Fidelity in business » The workmen under jehoiada

2 Kings 12:15

And they will not reckon with the men which they will give the silver into their hand to give to those doing the work, for they do in faith.

Social duties » Masters' duties » Refraining from threats

Social duties » Compassion » The good samaritan

Luke 10:33-34

And a certain Samaritan, travelling, came to him : and having seen him, felt compassion. And having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and having mounted him upon his own animal, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Fellow-feeling for the unfortunate

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Of joseph

Genesis 39:6

And he will let go all which is to him into the hand of Joseph; and he will not, know anything except the bread which he is eating: and Joseph will be fair of form, and fair of look.

Social duties » Masters' duties » Consideration for employees

Job 31:13-14

If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me; And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?

Social duties » Mercifulness » of Elisha

2 Kings 6:22

And he will say, Thou shalt not strike: whom thou tookest captive with thy sword and with thy bow; strikest thou? set bread and water before them, and they shall eat and drink and go to their lord.

Social duties » Mercifulness » Solomon

1 Kings 1:52

And Solomon will say, If he will be for a son of strength there shall not fall of his hairs to the earth: and if evil shall be found in him and he shall die.

Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Benevolence

Social duties » Benevolence, the duty of » The prophet's words

Social duties » Fidelity in business » of moses

Social duties » Compassion » Priscilla and aquila

Romans 16:4

Who for my soul have laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the nations.

Social duties » Compassion » Elisha

2 Kings 2:2

And Elijah will say to Elisha, Sit now, here; for Jehovah sent me even to the house of God. And Elisha will say to him, Jehovah lives, and thy soul lives, if I shall forsake thee. And they will go down to the house of God.

Social duties » Compassion » Pharaoh's daughter

Exodus 2:6

And she will open and will see the child: and behold, the boy weeping: And she will have pity upon him, and will say, This from the children of the Hebrews.

Social duties » Brotherly love » Christ's love the standard of

Social duties » Brotherly love » Proof of discipleship

Social duties » Fidelity in business » Of daniel

Daniel 6:4

Then the presidents and satraps were seeking to find a pretext against Daniel from the part of the kingdom; and they will not be able to find any pretext and corruption, because that he was faithful, and any error and corruption was not found upon him.

Social duties » Compassion » The philippian jailor

Acts 16:33

And having taken them in that hour of the night, he washed out the blows; and was immersed, he and all his, immediately.

Social duties » Compassion » Thomas

John 11:16

Then said Thomas, called Didymus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we might die with him.

Social duties » Compassion » Christ

Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » John the baptist a total abstainer

Social duties » Parental parental duties » To love

Social duties » Compassion » Job

Job 29:13

The praise of him perishing will come upon me, and I shall cause the heart of the widow to rejoice.

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