'Kindness' in the Bible

Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.

Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;

whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you -- they have their reward!

'But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth,

that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.

but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

and if ye had known what is: Kindness I will, and not sacrifice -- ye had not condemned the blameless,

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law -- the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved you to do, and those not to neglect.

And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness,

and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant,

and he said, 'He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, 'Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'

and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,

who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.

they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what hath happened to him.

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 to Moses He saith, 'I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

or he who is exhorting -- 'In the exhortation!' he who is sharing -- 'In simplicity!' he who is leading -- 'In diligence?' he who is doing kindness -- 'In cheerfulness.'

and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, 'Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

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

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

and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

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

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

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

to Timotheus -- genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,

who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:

to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord!

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.

to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

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

(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.

for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

who were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

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

there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!

yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;