DUTY

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• Leviticus 19:18

  “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 6:5

  You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

• Deuteronomy 10:12

  Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 10:13

  to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

• Deuteronomy 11:1

  Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

• Deuteronomy 30:15

  Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

• Deuteronomy 30:16

  For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 30:17

  But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• Deuteronomy 30:18

  I denounce to you today, that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 30:19

  I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, 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;

• Deuteronomy 30:20

  to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

• Joshua 22:5

  Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

• Joshua 23:11

  Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

• Psalms 31:23

  Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

• Proverbs 23:26

  My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

• Isaiah 58:6

  “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

• Isaiah 58:7

  Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

• Matthew 4:10

  Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

• Matthew 7:12

  Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

• Matthew 12:50

  For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

• Matthew 22:21

  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.”

• Matthew 22:36

  “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

• Matthew 22:37

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

• Matthew 22:38

  This is the first and great commandment.

• Matthew 22:39

  A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

• Matthew 22:40

  The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

• Matthew 25:34

  Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

• Matthew 25:35

  for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

• Matthew 25:36

  I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:37

  “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

• Matthew 25:38

  When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:39

  When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

• Matthew 25:40

  “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.’

• Matthew 25:41

  Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

• Matthew 25:42

  for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

• Matthew 25:43

  I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

• Matthew 25:44

  “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

• Matthew 25:45

  “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

• Matthew 25:46

  These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

• Luke 10:25

  Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

• Luke 10:26

  He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

• Luke 10:27

  He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

• Luke 10:28

  He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

• Luke 10:29

  But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

• Luke 10:30

  Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

• Luke 10:31

  By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

• Luke 10:32

  In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

• Luke 10:33

  But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

• Luke 10:34

  came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

• Luke 10:35

  On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

• Luke 10:36

  Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

• Luke 10:37

  He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

• Luke 17:10

  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.’”

• Luke 21:3

  He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

• Luke 21:4

  for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

• John 4:34

  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

• John 6:38

  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

• John 14:15

  If you love me, keep my commandments.

• John 14:21

  One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

• John 15:14

  You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

• Acts 1:21

  “Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

• Acts 4:19

  But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

• Acts 4:20

  for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

• Acts 5:29

  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.