DUTY

DUTY. → OF MAN TO GOD De 6:5; 10:12,13; 11:1; 30:15-20; Jos 22:5; 23:11; Ps 31:23; Pr 23:26; Mt 4:10; 12:50; 22:21,36-40; Lu 17:10; 21:3,4; Joh 4:34; 6:38; 14:15,21; 15:14; Ac 4:19,20; 5:29; Jude 1:21
* See COMMANDMENTS
* See FAITHFULNESS
* See OBEDIENCE

→ OF MAN TO MAN Le 19:18; Isa 58:6,7; Mt 7:12; 25:34-46; Lu 10:25-37
* See COMMANDMENTS
* See CHILDREN
* See HUSBAND
* See MINISTER, DUTIES OF
* See PARENTS
* See WIFE

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(Select Readings Ro 12; 1Th 5.15-28) Ro 12:1-21; 1Th 5:15-28 (A) "DAILY DUTY" Gathering the Manna Ex 16:4; 1Ch 16:37; 2Ch 8:14; Ezr 3:4 Reading of "The Word" Ne 8:18 Performing of Vows Ps 61:8 Prayer Ps 88:9; 145:2 Watchfulness Pr 8:34 Cross-bearing Lu 9:23 Exhortation Heb 3:13 (B) OF MINISTERS Isa 58:1; 62:6; Eze 4:4; Mt 28:19; Mr 16:15; Joh 21:16 Ac 5:20; 6:4; 14:22; 20:28; Ro 12:6,7,8; Eph 3:9 1Ti 4:6; 2Ti 1:6; 2:15; Tit 1:5; 1Pe 5:2 (C) DUTY TO THE WEAK Mt 25:35,36; Ac 20:35; Ro 14:1; 15:1; 1Co 8:11; 9:22; 1Th 5:14 --SEE Helpfulness, WORK AND WORKERS, RELIGIOUS Sympathy, SYMPATHY SYMPATHY (D) THREE-FOLD DUTY OF LIFE Appropriation, Formation, Donation (1) "Appropriation" (taking) Cup of Salvation Ps 116:13 Instruction Pr 4:13 Divine Strength Isa 27:5 All of Life's opportunities Lu 19:13 The Water of Life Re 22:17 (2) "Formation" (making) After the Divine Plan Ex 25:40 A Perfect Example Joh 13:15 Life to be Transformed, not conformed Ro 12:2; 2Co 3:18 Danger of Old Ideals 1Pe 1:14,15 (3) "Donation" (giving) With a Free Hand Mt 10:8 Give or Lose Mt 16:25 The Blessedness of Ac 20:35 As Stewards 1Pe 4:10 --SEE Benevolence, LIBERALITY Liberality, LIBERALITY Giving, LIBERALITY

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duty. Duty, n. obedience, obligation, a tax, custom

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Du″ty (?), n.; pl. Duties (#). [[From Due.]] 1. 1. That which is due; payment.
When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. Tyndale. 2. 2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. Hallam. 3. 3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
With records sweet of duties done. Keble. To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. Hallam. Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. C. J. Smith. 4. 4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. Shak.
5. 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. “My duty to you.” Shak.
6. 6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
7. 7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
☞ An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See Ad valorem. — Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. — On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task.