Bible Verses About Relationships, Work & Justice

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Husbands, love your wives the way Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her.

Fathers, do not drive your children to anger. Instead, bring them up with the Lord’s training and correction.

Children are a gift handed down from the LORD; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Honor your father and your mother. Then your days will be long in the land the LORD your God is going to give you.

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not leave it.

If serving the LORD seems wrong to you, then make your choice today. Whom will you serve? The gods your ancestors served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, whose land you now live in? My household and I will serve the LORD.”

But to return to you: each husband must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

A capable wife, who can find her? She is worth far more than red coral.

Whoever holds back the rod hates their son, but the one who loves him is quick to discipline him.

I recall your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and which I am sure now lives in you.

and the two of them will be one flesh.’ And so they are two no longer, but one flesh.

One person alone may be overpowered, but two together can stand up to an attacker, and a cord of three strands does not snap quickly.

A friend is loving through every season, and a brother is born to stand with you in trouble.

A song of ascents. Of David. See how good it is, how lovely, when brothers and sisters live together in harmony!

And I tell you: you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. The gates of the realm of the dead will not overpower it.

They gave themselves fully to the apostles’ teaching and to the shared life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.

Share with God’s holy people in their needs, and be eager to welcome guests.

Blessed are those who make peace: they will be called children of God.

So keep on encouraging one another and strengthening each other, as you are already doing.

You are Christ’s body, and each of you individually is one of its parts.

Take up one another’s heavy loads, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.

As iron is sharpened against iron, so one person sharpens another.

Let us not walk away from our own gatherings, as some have made it their practice, but keep urging one another on, and do it more and more as you see the day coming closer.

If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a brother or sister, that person is a liar. For anyone who does not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, is not able to love God, whom they have not seen. And this is the command we have received from him: the one who loves God is to love a brother or sister as well.

Love one another warmly, as brothers and sisters in one family; take the lead in honoring one another.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole self into the work, as for the Lord and not for people,

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Those who put their trust in riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.

Whoever is kind to the poor is lending to the LORD, and he will pay them back for what they have done.

The rich lord it over the poor, and whoever borrows becomes the lender’s slave.

Each of you should give the amount you have settled on in your own heart, not with regret and not because you feel you must. God loves a giver who gives gladly.

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there will be food in my house. Put me to the test in this, says the LORD of Armies, and see if I do not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out on you a blessing until you have more than enough.

I do not say this because I am going short. However things stand with me, I have learned to be content.

Hard workers will end up in charge, but the lazy will be made to work for others.

Do not pile up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust ruin them and thieves dig through walls and steal them. Instead, pile up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where no moth or rust can ruin them and no thief can dig through and steal.

You lazy one, go and look at the ant; watch how it lives, and learn wisdom.

Money that comes easily soon dwindles, but whoever gathers it bit by bit makes it grow.

Now what is looked for in household managers is this: that each one proves trustworthy.

Above all, seek the kingdom and his righteousness, and you will be given all these things as well.

He has told you, mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD ask of you except to do justice, to love loyalty, and to walk humbly with your God?

Whoever is kind to the poor is lending to the LORD, and he will pay them back for what they have done.

To God the Father, religion that is pure and untainted looks like this: going to the help of orphans and widows in their trouble, and keeping yourself unstained by the world.

From his holy dwelling God acts as father to orphans and defender of widows.

The outsider living among you is to count as one of your own native-born. You are to love them as yourself, since you yourselves were outsiders in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Learn to do good. Go after justice. Set the oppressor straight. Give the fatherless child a fair hearing; stand up for the widow in court.

Judge fairly for the weak and for orphans; declare the afflicted and the destitute in the right.

Whoever oppresses the poor insults the One who made them, but kindness to the needy honors him.

Generous people will be blessed, because they share their food with the poor.

Blessed are the merciful: mercy will be shown to them.

No, this is the fast I choose: loose the bonds that wickedness has tied, untie the ropes of the yoke, send the crushed away free, and tear every yoke in two.

Open your mouth for those who have no voice, for the cause of all who are left to perish. Speak out and judge rightly; take up the case of the poor and the needy.”

The King will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, each time you did it for one of these my brothers and sisters, even the least of them, you did it for me.’