100 Bible Verses About Social Responsibility

And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:

And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.

Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh–gilead to the assembly.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master’s son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master’s son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.