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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that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust.
Ye shall therefore be perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.
If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?
Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he showed his benefits, in giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.
For to show, in times to come, the exceeding riches of his grace, in kindness to us ward, in Christ Jesus.
Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel to another; even as Christ forgave you, even so do ye. read more. Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness,
But after that the kindness and love of our saviour God to man ward appeared,
But after that the kindness and love of our saviour God to man ward appeared, not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost, read more. which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our saviour; that we, once justified by his grace, should be heirs of eternal life, through hope.
in godliness, brotherly kindness; in brotherly kindness, love.