4 Bible Verses about Social Life

The disciples did so, and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves, which were left after all had eaten.

There a supper was given in honor at which Martha waited, while Lazarus was one of those present at the table.

And Levi gave a great entertainment at his house, in honor of Jesus; and a large number of tax-gatherers and others were at table with them.

Suddenly Jesus met them. "Welcome!" he said. The women went up to him, and clasped his feet, bowing to the ground before him. Then Jesus said to them:

Gabriel came into her presence and said: "Hail, you who have been highly favored! The Lord is with you."

Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.

Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

But the people there did not welcome him, because his face was set in the direction of Jerusalem.

Rather--'If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him to drink. By doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head.'

I, however, say to you--Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right;

The second is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost love thyself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Love never wrongs a neighbor. Therefore Love fully satisfies the Law.

We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his neighbor's good, to help in the building up of his character.

and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action.

The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher,

Relieving the wants of Christ's People; devoted to hospitality.

On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint,

Do not neglect to show hospitality; for, through being hospitable, men have all unawares entertained angels.

If any one of you is ill, let him send for the Officers of the Church, and let them pray over him, after anointing him with oil in the name of the lord.

When I was naked, you clothed me; when I fell ill, you visited me; and when I was in prison, you came to me.'

And he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was deeply moved; he ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him.

Greet one another with a sacred kiss. All the Churches of the Christ send you greetings.

So Mary took a pound of choice spikenard perfume of great value, and anointed the feet of Jesus with it, and then wiped them with her hair. The whole house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

But, when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before his guests, and so pleased Herod,

If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you consent to go, eat anything that is put before you, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my Brother fall, rather than make my Brother fall, I will never eat meat again.

"The Kingdom of Heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son's wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come. A second time he sent some servants, with orders to say to those who had been invited 'I have prepared my breakfast, my cattle and fat beasts are killed and everything is ready; come to the banquet.'

Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve--never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in a Brother's way.

And, later on, when he was at table in the house, a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts came in and took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples.

"When you are invited by any one to a wedding banquet, do not seat yourself in the best place, for fear that some one of higher rank should have been invited by your host; And he who invited you both will come and say to you 'Make room for this man,' and then you will begin in confusion to take the lowest place.

He made all races of the earth's surface--fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements--

As they continued their journey, Jesus came to a village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.

But they pressed him not to do so. "Stay with us," they said, "for it is getting towards evening, and the sun in already low." So Jesus went in to stay with them.

Then he looked around on the people sitting in a circle round him, and said: "Here are my mother and my brothers!

On one occasion, as Jesus was going, on a Sabbath into the house of one of the leading Pharisees to dine, they were watching him closely.

When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head.

One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to dine with him, so Jesus went to his house and took his place at table.

On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

Jesus himself, too, with his disciples, was invited to the wedding.

Two days after this there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.