Reference: Kindness
Hastings
The pattern of all kindness is set before us in the Bible in the behaviour of God to our race. He gives the sunshine and the rain, and fruitful seasons and glad hearts, food and all the good they have to the just and the unjust alike (Mt 5:45; 7:11; Ac 14:17). But the exceeding wealth of His grace is shown unto us in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:7). God's glory no man can look upon and live. It is a light that no man can approach unto. It is inconceivably great, incomprehensibly grand, unimaginably exalted above the grasp of man's mind. But the kindness of God is God's glory stooping to man's need. It is God's power brought within man's reach. It is God's mercy and God's love and God's grace flowing through time and through eternity, as broad as the race, as deep as man's need, as long as man's immortality. The Bible reveals it. Jesus incarnated it. In His life the kindness of God found its supreme manifestation (Tit 3:4-7). All the children of God are to be like the Father in this regard (Mt 5:48; Ro 12:10; Col 3:12-14). The philanthropy of God (Tit 3:4) is to be reproduced in the philanthropy of men (2Pe 1:7).
D. A. Hayes.
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so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness."
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. read more. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, read more. whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.