27 Bible Verses about Social duties

" 'And if your countryman becomes poor and {if he becomes dependent on you}, then you shall support him [like] an alien and [like] a temporary resident, and he shall live with you.

If [there] is a poor [person] among you from [among] one of your brothers in one of your {towns} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward {your brother who is poor}.

Her palm she opens to the poor, and her hand she reaches [out] to the needy.

"And take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; {otherwise} you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give [the proceeds] 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, and {he shall not be obligated with anything}; he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home} for one year, and he shall bring joy [to] his wife that he took.

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

And the man said, "{She is now} bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; {she} shall be called 'Woman,' for {she was taken} from man." Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.

May 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 which he gives you under the sun, because this [is] your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun.

You shall not subvert the rights of an alien [or] an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge [the] garment of a widow.

Thus says Yahweh, "Act [with] justice and righteousness, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from the hand of [the] oppressor. And you must not oppress [the] immigrant, [the] orphan, and [the] widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place.

And [so] the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien [also may come] and the orphan and the widow that [are] in your {towns}, and {they may eat their fill}, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all [of] the work of your hand that you undertake."

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.

" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.

[She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.

And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.

And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and loyalty more than all the virgins, so he put a {royal crown} on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after [the death of] his mother.

Then he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.

'And you shall not commit adultery.

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

These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These [are] the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity [as] first fruits to God and to the Lamb,

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

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

Now when they had eaten 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 the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

"However, {take care} for yourself and watch your inner self closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to {your grandchildren}.

And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at [the time of] your living in your house and at [the time of] your going on the road and at [the time of] your lying down and at [the time of] your rising [up].

And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

She looks after the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she will not eat.

in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands [and to] love their children,

And let the king's decree that he will make be proclaimed in all his kingdom, because it [is] vast and all the women will honor their husbands, great and small."

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

A man of want [is] he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what [is] before you, and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a {big appetite}.

[If] you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.

And [while] he was discussing about righteousness and self control and the judgment that is to come, Felix became afraid [and] replied, "Go away for the present, and [when I] have an opportunity, I will summon you."

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir {anger}.

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and instruction of kindness [is] upon her tongue.

So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and {spoke kindly} to them.

The Lord Yahweh has given me [the] tongue of pupil, to know how to help [the] weary [with] a word. He awakens {morning by morning}, awakens an ear for me to listen as [do] the pupils.

{With patience} a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.

" 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume. You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

[Rather] a full and honest weight shall be {for your use}; there shall be for you a full and honest {measure}, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you may be long.

Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for [what is] good in the sight of all people.

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

I testify solemnly before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels that you observe these [things] without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality.

" 'You shall not do injustice in judgment; {you shall not show partiality to the powerless}; you shall not give preference {to the powerful}; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice.

You must not {be partial} {in your judgment}; hear [out] the small [person] as [also] the great [person]; {do not be intimidated by any person}, because the judgment [is] God's; and the case that is too difficult for you, bring [it] to me, and I will hear it [out].'

These [people] are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous [words], {showing partiality to gain an advantage}.

These [sayings] are also for the wise: {Partiality} in judgment is not good.

Stand therefore, girding your waist with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness,

Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

These [are] the things that you must do: speak truth, each [of you], with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates.

The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten [them]."

A lip of truth endures forever, but a tongue of deception lasts only a moment.

Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.

Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

A balance and scales of justice [belong] to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag [are] his work.

"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.

If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrange [it] with him.

If your enemy [is] hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

See to it that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue good toward one another and toward all [people].

But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, by which he was approved that he was righteous, [because] God approved [him] for his gifts, and through it he still speaks, [although he] is dead.

Brothers, take [as an] example of perseverance and endurance the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

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

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps,

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

He said to his men, "Far be it from me in Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh's anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he [is] the anointed one of Yahweh."

Despite that, in the same way also these [men], [because of their] dreams, defile the flesh and reject authority and blaspheme majestic beings.

Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for [there] is no authority except by God, and those that exist are put in place by God.

" 'You will not curse God, and you will not curse a leader among your people.

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to [result in] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Therefore, as [the] chosen of God, holy and [dearly] loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.

{Justice, only justice} you shall pursue, so that you may live, and you shall take possession of the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you.

Thus says Yahweh: "Observe justice and do righteousness, for my salvation [is] close to coming, and my justice to being revealed.

Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

" 'If you come upon the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you will certainly bring it back to him

But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon 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 [the one who] hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him--

While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

All of the land [was] weeping [with] a loud voice as all the people [were] passing by and the king [was] crossing through the Wadi Kidron, and all the people [were] passing {on the road to the wilderness}.

Jesus wept.

So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their brother.)

Have I not wept for {the unfortunate}, [and] grieved myself over the poor?

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing freely,

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

I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to 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, pursuing hospitality.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all [people], and especially to those who belong to the household of faith.

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness can undo great offenses.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,

If anyone is blameless, [the] husband of one wife, having faithful children, not {accused of dissipation} or rebellious.

If [it is] possible on your [part], be at peace with all people.

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

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

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

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

He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger.

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and {you shall willingly lend} [to] him enough to meet his need, {whatever it is}.

All the day he [is] gracious and lends, and his children [are] a blessing.

[It goes] well [for] a man [who] is gracious and lends, [who] conducts his {business properly}.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

A heart of gladness will make good {countenance}, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will be like this--according to {the} way it was told to me.

So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.

Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the elders of the church and they should pray over him, anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

Elisha became ill with the illness with which he would die, so Jehoash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!"

I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you came to me.'

Joram the king returned to Jezreel to heal from the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted at Ramah when Hazael king of Aram fought him. Ahaziah the son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he [was] ill.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.

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

He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him} discipline.

Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite {spoke up} and said, "{I am young}, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you.

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

" '{Before} old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I [am] Yahweh.

Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to [him] as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

A king who judges with truthfulness [to] the poor, his throne will be established forever.

Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.

He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.

He judged [the] legal cause of [the] needy and [the] poor, [and] then it was well. {Is that not what it means to know me}?" {declares} Yahweh.

And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at [the time of] your living in your house and at [the time of] your going on the road and at [the time of] your lying down and at [the time of] your rising [up].

"When your child asks you in the future, {saying}, 'What [is the meaning of] the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?'

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town},

And finally, all [of you be] harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble,

Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

And on the next [day], we put in at Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul kindly, allowed [him] to go to [his] friends {to be cared for}.

Now in the [regions] around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, {named} Publius, who welcomed us [and] entertained [us] hospitably [for] three days.

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

[The] living, [the] living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.

"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."

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

Brotherly love must continue.

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

Therefore, as [the] chosen of God, holy and [dearly] loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,

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

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

he will abstain from wine and fermented drink; he will not drink wine vinegar or vinegar of fermented drink; he will not drink the fruit juice of grapes or eat fresh or dry grapes.

You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I [am] Yahweh your God.

So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,

Blessed [are] the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.

Deceit [is] in the heart of {those who plan} evil, but to {those who plan} peace, [there is] joy.

So then, let us pursue {what promotes peace} and {what edifies one another}.

{How much less} the defiant; [the] arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.

[to be] self-controlled, pure, busy at home, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be slandered.

Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

Now {Daniel resolved} that he would not defile himself with the fine food of the king, and with {the wine that he drank}, and [so] he requested from the commander of the court officials [permission so] that he would not defile himself.

I had not eaten [any] choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and {I did not use any ointment} {until the end of three whole weeks}.

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

Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy.

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

And he answered [and] said to them, "The one who has two tunics must share with the one who does not have [one], and the one who has food must do likewise."

" 'You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob [him]; a hired worker's wage you shall not {withhold} overnight until morning.

On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down}, because [he is] poor and {his life depends on it}; [do this] so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.

If your enemy [is] hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water.

Send out your bread on the water, for in many days you will find it.

[It is] good not to eat meat or to drink wine or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat {forever}, in order that I may not cause my brother to sin.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

And there were many women there, observing from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving 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, at the dawning on the first [day] of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to view the tomb.

And Jonathan again made David swear an oath, because he loved him; for with the love of his soul he loved him.

But Ittai answered the king and said, "{As Yahweh lives} and {my lord the king lives}, surely in the place wherever my lord the king shall be, if for death or if for life, surely there your servant will be."

managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity

Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing [their] children and their own households well.

But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh's anointed one and remained blameless?"

Then David said, "What [is] it to me or to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be an adversary today? [Should] anyone be put to death in Israel? Do I not know today that I [am] king over Israel?"

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

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

For the [commandments], "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet," and if [there is] any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to 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; weep with those who weep.

For you both sympathized with the prisoners and put up with the seizure of your belongings with joy [because you] knew that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

And the local inhabitants showed {extraordinary} kindness to us, for they lit a fire [and] welcomed us all, because of the rain that had begun and because of the cold.

And finally, all [of you be] harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble,