Thematic Bible: Social duties to regard all men as brothers
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Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Duty to enemies
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.
“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Verse Concepts
Forgiveness, Application Ofevil, believers' responses toGrace, In Human RelationshipsMaliceOpposition, To Sin And EvilPersecution, Attitudes ToPrayer, For OthersReconciliation, Between BelieversSuffering SaintsIntercessory PrayerPersecution, Christian ResponseDuties To EnemiesDifferent TeachingsLove Your Neighbour!Praying For Sinners
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For you will heap burning coals on his head, And the LORD will reward you.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Duty of neighbours
If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves. Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Visitation of the sick
Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.
When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A common father
“Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
The Lord is the
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Demands self-sacrifice
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » Forbids harsh judgment
Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A blood relationship
and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
Social life » Social duties to regard all men as brothers » A spiritual kinship
Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, “Behold My mother and My brothers!
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