Kindness

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you 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.’”

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

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

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous, — read the full passage →

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

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

in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. — read the full passage →

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →