Duty to Others (2 of 2)

God uses scripture to teach his people what duties they must fulfill. This list reveals the duties to others.  

Nourisheth

Nourisheth (Nourished)

Wisdom

Ephesians 5:28-29 KJV - "28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:"

Affirmation

Genesis 50:21 KJV - "Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them."

Testimonials

Genesis 47:12 KJV - "And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families."

Daniel 1:5 KJV - "And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king."

Acts 7:20 KJV - "In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:"

Acts 7:21 KJV - "And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son."

Prophetic

Ruth 4:15 KJV - "And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him."

Partner

Testimonials

2 Corinthians 8:23 KJV — "Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.”

Philemon 1:17 KJV - "If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself."

Provoke

Imploration

Hebrews 10:24 KJV - "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:"

Service

Instruction

1 Timothy 6:2 KJV - "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."

Serving

Serving (Serve/Serveth/Servest/Served)

Instruction (To Serve)

Luke 22:26 KJV - "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.”

Galatians 5:13 KJV - "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."

Instruction (Serve Not)

Leviticus 25:39 KJV - "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:"

Wisdom

Luke 22:26-27 KJV - "26 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. 27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth."

1 Corinthians 14:22 KJV - "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe."

Testimonials

Genesis 31:6 KJV - "And ye know that with all my power I have served your father."

Genesis 40:4 KJV - "And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward."

John 12:2 KJV - "There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him."

Acts 13:36 KJV - "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:"

Hebrews 8:5 KJV - "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount."

Prophetic

Genesis 25:23 KJV - "And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger."

Speak

Instruction

Deuteronomy 11:19 KJV - "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."

Proverbs 23:9 KJV — "Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words."

Isaiah 40:2 KJV — "Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins."

Zechariah 8:16 KJV — "These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:"

Ephesians 4:25 KJV — "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another."

Titus 3:2 KJV — "To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men."

Implication

Proverbs 16:13 KJV — "Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right."

Wisdom

Romans 7:1 KJV — "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?"

Affirmation

Genesis 24:50 KJV - "Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good."

John 16:25, 29 KJV — "25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. … 29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb."

1 Corinthians 2:6-7 KJV — "6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:"

Examples

Jeremiah 38:20 KJV — "But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live."

Romans 11:13 KJV — "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:"

1 Corinthians 6:5 KJV — "I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?"

1 Corinthians 7:12 KJV — "But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away."

1 Corinthians 7:35 KJV — "And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.”

1 Corinthians 10:15 KJV — "I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say."

1 Corinthians 15:34 KJV — "Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame."

Testimonials

Esther 10:3 KJV — "For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed."

Isaiah 50:4 KJV — "The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned."

John 8:26 KJV — "I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him."

John 17:13 KJV — "And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves."

1 Corinthians 3:1 KJV — "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.”

2 Corinthians 6:13 KJV — "Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged."

2 Corinthians 7:3 KJV — "I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you."

2 John 1:12 KJV — "Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full."

3 John 1:14 KJV — "But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name."

Succourer

Succourer (Succour/Succoured)

Testimonials

2 Samuel 8:5 KJV - "And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men."

2 Samuel 21:17 KJV - "But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel."

Romans 16:2 KJV - "That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also."

Testify

Instruction (testifying Against)

Numbers 35:30 KJV — "Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die."

Won

Wisdom

Proverbs 18:19 KJV - "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle."

1 Peter 3:1 KJV - "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;"

Witness

Witness (Witnesseth/Witnessing)

WITNESSING AGAINST

Instruction

Proverbs 24:28 KJV — "Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips."

Matthew 18:16 KJV — "But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established."

1 Timothy 5:19 KJV — "Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses."

Wisdom

Numbers 35:30 KJV — "Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.”

Testimonials

Deuteronomy 4:26 KJV — "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed."

AGAINST FALSE WITNESSING

Instruction

Exodus 20:16 KJV — "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Exodus 23:1 KJV — "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”

Deuteronomy 5:20 KJV — "Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Deuteronomy 19:16 KJV — "If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;"

Deuteronomy 19:18 KJV — "And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;"

Mark 10:19 KJV — "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother."

Luke 18:20 KJV — "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother."

Romans 13:9 KJV — "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Wisdom

Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV - "16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."

Proverbs 12:17 KJV — "He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit."

Proverbs 25:18 KJV — "A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.”

Matthew 15:19 KJV — "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:"

Matthew 19:18 KJV — "He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,"

Implication

Proverbs 19:5 KJV — "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape."

Proverbs 19:9 KJV — "A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish."

Proverbs 21:28 KJV — "A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly."

Testimonials

Psalm 27:12 KJV — "Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.”

Psalm 35:11 KJV — "False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.”

Work

Testimonials

1 Corinthians 9:1 KJV — "Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?"

Hebrews 6:10 KJV — "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister."

Works

Imploration

Hebrews 10:24 KJV - "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:"

Testimonials

1 Samuel 19:4 KJV - "And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:"