Kind Words

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

And the barbarians showed us no common kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared,

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth: and they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, — read the full passage →

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →