Acts Of Kindness

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you, — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good--from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

The desirableness of a man <FI>is<Fi> his kindness, And better <FI>is<Fi> the poor than a liar.

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God, — read the full passage →

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one--Jehovah.

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

In overflowing wrath I hid my face <FI>for<Fi> a moment from thee, And in kindness age-during I have loved thee, Said thy Redeemer--Jehovah!

The righteous doth beat me <FI>in<Fi> kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer <FI>is<Fi> about their vexations.

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, For He hath made marvellous His kindness To me in a city of bulwarks.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

For mighty to us hath been His kindness, And the truth of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to the age. Praise ye Jah!

And he saith, `Blessed <FI>art<Fi> thou of Jehovah, my daughter; thou hast dealt more kindly at the latter end than at the beginning--not to go after the young men, either poor or rich.

Lo, then, goodness and severity of God--upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

And David saith to him, `Be not afraid; for I certainly do with thee kindness because of Jonathan thy father, and have given back to thee all the field of Saul thy father, and thou dost eat bread at my table continually.'

`And now, swear ye, I pray you, to me by Jehovah--because I have done with you kindness--that ye have done, even ye, kindness with the house of my father, and have given to me a true token,

and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

And rend your heart, and not your garments, And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful <FI>is<Fi> He, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, And He hath repented concerning the evil.

and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not,

`Surely if thou hast remembered me with thee, when it is well with thee, and hast done (I pray thee) kindness with me, and hast made mention of me unto Pharaoh, then hast thou brought me out from this house,

In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son--the only begotten--hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant.

but thou dost not cut off thy kindness from my house unto the age, nor in Jehovah's cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.'

And Naomi saith to her daughter-in-law, `Blessed <FI>is<Fi> he of Jehovah who hath not forsaken His kindness with the living and with the dead;' and Naomi saith to her, `The man is a relation of ours; he <FI>is<Fi> of our redeemers.'

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou <FI>art<Fi> a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.

`And, now, Jehovah doth with you kindness and truth, and also, I do with you this good because ye have done this thing;

and Saul saith unto the Kenite, `Go, turn aside, go down from the midst of Amalek, lest I consume thee with it, and thou didst kindness with all the sons of Israel, in their going up out of Egypt;' and the Kenite turneth aside from the midst of Amalek.

and it cometh to pass, when God hath caused me to wander from my father's house, that I say to her, This <FI>is<Fi> thy kindness which thou dost with me: at every place whither we come, say of me, He <FI>is<Fi> my brother.'

and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

if so be ye did taste that the Lord <FI>is<Fi> gracious,

but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land--therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish--that I have known that Thou <FI>art<Fi> a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

`And to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite thou dost do kindness, and they have been among those eating at thy table, for so they drew near unto me in my fleeing from the face of Absalom thy brother.

And David sendeth messengers unto the men of Jabesh-Gilead, and saith unto them, `Blessed <FI>are<Fi> ye of Jehovah, in that ye have done this kindness with your lord, with Saul, that ye bury him.

and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit; — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

But--in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

For coals thou art putting on his head, And Jehovah giveth recompense to thee.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

And Absalom saith unto Hushai, `This thy kindness with thy friend! why hast thou not gone with thy friend?'

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;

The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

on these--the two commands--all the law and the prophets do hang.' — read the full passage →

By David. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And all my inward parts--His Holy Name. — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →