Kind Words

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

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

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 →

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

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

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

`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;

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

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;

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

`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

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

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. — read the full passage →

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

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

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 now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

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

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

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.

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

and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

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.

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!

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.'

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

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

all your care having cast 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 →