Obligation

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; — read the full passage →

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. — read the full passage →

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For each man will bear his own burden.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. — read the full passage →

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. — read the full passage →

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.

But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever: — read the full passage →

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. — read the full passage →

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate, — read the full passage →

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →