Bible Verses about 'Kindness'
- Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty. - Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
- What a person desires is unfailing love;
better to be poor than a liar. - Whoever pursues righteousness and love
finds life, prosperity and honor. - For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
- This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
- He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God. - Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity. - Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man. - “Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you. - Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love. - May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,
even as we put our hope in you. - The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does. - When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. - The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love. - For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies. - The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love. - “And with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;
and, “You reward everyone
according to what they have done.” - But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. - You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you. - Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, Lord, are good. - Not to us, Lord, not to us
but to your name be the glory,
because of your love and faithfulness. - Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me. - By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life. - In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
- The Lord will vindicate me;
your love, Lord, endures forever—
do not abandon the works of your hands. - Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever. - May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands. - But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me. - Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
- Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life. - But I will sing of your strength,
in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble. - Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands. - Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin. - Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever. - Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act. - But from everlasting to everlasting
the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts. - And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
- The lips of the righteous know what finds favor,
but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse. - Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy. - Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. 
