'Loving kindness' in the Bible

Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;

He said, “O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.

now may it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’—may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.”

and said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not withdrawn his loving-kindness and his faithfulness from my master; I being in the way, Jehovah has led me to the house of my master's brethren.

I am too small for all the loving-kindness and all the faithfulness that thou hast shewn unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two troops.

But the Lord was with Joseph and extended lovingkindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden.

“In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed;In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.

but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have asked; for you have found favor (lovingkindness, mercy) in My sight and I have known you [personally] by name.”

And God said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the Name of the Lord before you; for I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion (lovingkindness) on whom I will show compassion.”

Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

And he said, “If now I have found favor and lovingkindness in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, please, go in our midst, though it is a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your possession.”

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving-kindness, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

“Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers.

Then he said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made your last kindness better than the first; for you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.

If I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of the Lord, that I may not die?

You shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever, not even when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”

Now may the Lord show lovingkindness and truth to you; and I also will show this goodness to you, because you have done this thing.

but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

You came only yesterday, so should I make you wander with us today while I go where I will? Return and take your brothers back with you also. May lovingkindness and faithfulness be with you.”

Magnifying the salvations of His king, And doing loving-kindness to His anointed, To David, and to his seed -- unto the age!'

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewn unto thy servant David my father great loving-kindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great loving-kindness, that thou hast given him a son who sits upon his throne, as it is this day.

He said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,

Give thanks unto Jehovah, for he is good; For his loving-kindness endureth for ever.

and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, because his loving-kindness endureth for ever;

I will be his father and he shall be My son; and I will not take My lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shewn unto David my father great loving-kindness, and hast made me king in his stead.

in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the Lord saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,” then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

He said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no god like You in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart;

“O Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember Your lovingkindness to Your servant David.”

And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah upon the house, and bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshipped and thanked Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.

And the priests stood in their charges, and the Levites with Jehovah's instruments of music, which David the king had made to praise Jehovah, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever, when David praised by their means; and the priests sounded the trumpets opposite to them, and all Israel stood.

And he consulted with the people, and appointed singers to Jehovah, and those that should praise in holy splendour, as they went forth before the armed men, and say, Give thanks to Jehovah; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever!

And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.

and has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to the hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

I said, “I beseech You, O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who preserves the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.

And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to hallow the sabbath day. Remember this also for me, my God, and spare me according to thy great loving-kindness!

‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;And Your care has preserved my spirit.

“Whether for correction, or for His world,Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

But know that the Lord has set apart for Himself [and dealt wonderfully with] the godly man [the one of honorable character and moral courage—the one who does right].The Lord hears and responds when I call to Him.

But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.

As for me, I have confided in thy loving-kindness; my heart shall be joyful in thy salvation.

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

It is he who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.

Surely, goodness and loving-kindness shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah for the length of the days.

Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.

All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city.

Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.

He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the loving-kindness of Jehovah.

Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his loving-kindness,

Let thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, according as we have hoped in thee.

Jehovah, thy loving-kindness is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake.

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God abideth continually.

But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.

He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.

For thy loving-kindness is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me, God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.

O my strength, I will sing praises to You;For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.

You will prolong the king’s life;His years will be as many generations.

He shall abide before God for ever: bestow loving-kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

And unto thee, O Lord, belongeth loving-kindness; for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

Blessed is God, Who hath not turned aside my prayer, And His loving-kindness, from me!

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy loving-kindness answer me, according to the truth of thy salvation:

Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?

And I said, “This is my grief,That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Shew us thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, and grant us thy salvation.

Loving-kindness and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other:

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

{An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.

For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.

Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face.

And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted.