Bible Verses About Obligation

“Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.”

“So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

“Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!”

“Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

“I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.”

“By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.”

“But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.”

“In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.”

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.”

“Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.”

“And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet the pressing needs of others, so that they will not be unfruitful.”

“Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.”

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.”

“But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.”

“Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;”

“Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.”