16 Bible Verses about Unkindness
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You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite. You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
"You have heard that they were told, 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,
"But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, treat those who hate you well, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
But if someone who is rich sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can he have any love for God in his heart?
But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?
Then he said to them, "Who among you, if his child or his ox falls into a well, will not pull him out at once on the Sabbath?"
Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels! For when I was hungry, you gave me nothing to eat, and when I was thirsty you gave me nothing to drink, when I was a stranger, you did not invite me home, when I had no clothes, you did not supply me, when I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me.'
and sent messengers before him. They started out and went into a Samaritan village, to make preparations for him. And the people there would not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem.
Do not forget to be hospitable to strangers, for by being so some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.
If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?
though he did not fail to give some evidence about himself, through his kindnesses to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and happiness to your heart's content."
Do you think so lightly of his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience, and fail to see that God's kindness ought to induce you to repent?
Observe then the goodness and the severity of God??everity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, provided you abide by his goodness, for otherwise, you in your turn will be pruned away.
to show the incomparable wealth of his mercy throughout the ages to come by his goodness to us through Christ Jesus.
From Thematic Bible
Unkindness » Pitilessness condemned
And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.
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