What Does the Bible Say About Social Work Profession?

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Luke 6:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

James 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Ecclesiastes 3:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Matthew 22:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Jude 1:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Genesis 16:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!” ...

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Psalm 37:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

Proverbs 12:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

Psalm 37:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.

31 Bible Verses about Social Work Profession

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Acts 20:35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Luke 6:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 22:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jude 1:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 16:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 37:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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31 Bible Verses about Social Work Profession

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Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Acts 20:35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Luke 6:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 22:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jude 1:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 16:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 37:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote