29 Bible Verses about Duty

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

they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband ??11 if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him ??and a husband must not put away his wife.

Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord,

Personally I am quite certain, my brothers, that even as it is you have ample goodness of heart, you are filled with knowledge of every kind, and you are well able to give advice to one another.

I do not write this to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as beloved children of mine.

As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.

Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me, I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

if your enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in this way you will make him feel a burning sense of shame.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves. Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me, I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.' read more.
Then the just will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you? or thirsty and gave you drink? when did we see you a stranger and entertain you? or unclothed and clothed you? when did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?' The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.' Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels! For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink, I was a stranger but you never entertained me, I was unclothed but you never clothed me, I was ill and in prison but you never looked after me.' Then they will answer too, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or unclothed or ill or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.' So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself." read more.
"A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live." Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?" Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead. Now it so chanced that a priest was going down the same road, but on seeing him he went past on the opposite side. So did a Levite who came to the spot; he looked at him but passed on the opposite side. However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him; he went to him, bound his wounds up, pouring oil and wine into them, mounted him on his own steed, took him to an inn, and attended to him. Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.' Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?" He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do the same."

And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

Let your brotherly love continue.

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world; rejoice at all times, never give up prayer, read more.
thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus; never quench the fire of the Spirit, never disdain prophetic revelations but test them all, retaining what is good and abstaining from whatever kind is evil. May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ! He who calls you is faithful, he will do this. Pray for us too, brothers. Salute everyone of the brothers with a holy kiss. I adjure you by the Lord to have this letter read aloud to all the [holy] brothers. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. [Amen.]

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

Now here I go to Jerusalem under the binding force of the Spirit. What will befall me there, I do not know.

But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another ??for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

able to manage his own household properly and keep his children submissive and perfectly respectful

Deacons are only to be married once, and they must manage their children and households properly.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet ??these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children.

What I am proud of is not the mere preaching of the gospel; that I am constrained to do. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

"Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.

Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance; as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct ??16 for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.

Masters, treat your servants justly and fairly; remember you have a Master of your own in heaven.

Let all servants who are under the yoke of slavery remember that their masters are entitled to perfect respect ??otherwise it will be a scandal to the Name of God and to our doctrine.

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

And as for you masters, act by your servants in the same way, and stop threatening them; be sure that they and you have a Lord and Master in heaven, and there is no partiality about him.

Servants, be submissive to your masters with perfect respect, not simply to those who are kind and reasonable but to the surly as well ??19 for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out daemons; give without paying, as you have got without paying;

You must serve one another, each with the talent he has received, as efficient stewards of God's varied grace.

Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened.

He first called his ten servants, giving them each a five-pound note, and telling them, 'Trade with this till I come back.'

for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

I have a baptism to undergo. How I am distressed till it is all over!

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory,

they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

for I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, as it dwells (I feel sure) in yourself.

As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.

Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.

able to manage his own household properly and keep his children submissive and perfectly respectful

Deacons are only to be married once, and they must manage their children and households properly.

Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children.

they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,