Kindness

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

`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;

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

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!

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

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

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

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

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

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

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.'

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

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;

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;

for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

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

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

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

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous, — read the full passage →

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

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

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

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

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

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

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

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

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.

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;'

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 →

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

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

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

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

`And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again;

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

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.

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

on the next <FI>day<Fi> also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit <FI>him<Fi> , having gone on unto friends, to receive <FI>their<Fi> care.

`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.'

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy; — read the full passage →

and if ye lend <FI>to those<Fi> of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners--that they may receive again as much.

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 →