Bible Verses About Duty

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.