KINDNESS

Passages on this topic · 142

• Genesis 45:16

  The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

• Genesis 45:17

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 45:18

  Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

• Genesis 45:19

  Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

• Genesis 45:20

  Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

• Genesis 47:5

  Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

• Genesis 47:6

  The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

• Exodus 2:6

  She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

• Exodus 2:7

  Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

• Exodus 2:8

  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The maiden went and called the child’s mother.

• Exodus 2:9

  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.

• Exodus 2:10

  The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

• Leviticus 19:34

  The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 22:1

  You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

• Deuteronomy 22:2

  If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.

• Deuteronomy 22:3

  So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found. You may not hide yourself.

• Deuteronomy 22:4

  You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

• Joshua 2:7

  The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

• Joshua 2:8

  Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.

• Joshua 2:9

  She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

• Joshua 2:10

  For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

• Joshua 2:11

  As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

• Joshua 2:12

  Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

• Joshua 2:13

  and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

• Joshua 2:14

  The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

• Joshua 2:15

  Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

• Joshua 2:16

  She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”

• 2 Samuel 9:1

  David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

• 2 Samuel 9:2

  There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “I am your servant.”

• 2 Samuel 9:3

  The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”

• 2 Samuel 9:4

  The king said to him, “Where is he?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”

• 2 Samuel 9:5

  Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.

• 2 Samuel 9:6

  Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth.” He answered, “Behold, your servant!”

• 2 Samuel 9:7

  David said to him, “Don’t be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

• 2 Samuel 9:9

  Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.

• 2 Samuel 9:10

  Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

• 2 Samuel 9:11

  Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.

• 2 Samuel 9:12

  Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 9:13

  So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.

• 2 Samuel 14:1

  Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:3

  Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

• 2 Samuel 14:4

  When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

• 2 Samuel 14:5

  The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:6

  Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 14:7

  Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:8

  The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

• 2 Samuel 14:10

  The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

• 2 Samuel 14:11

  Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:12

  Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

• 2 Samuel 14:13

  The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

• 2 Samuel 14:14

  For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

• 2 Samuel 14:15

  Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

• 2 Samuel 14:16

  For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

• 2 Samuel 14:17

  Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”

• 2 Samuel 14:18

  Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”

• 2 Samuel 14:19

  The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant;

• 2 Samuel 14:20

  to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:21

  The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”

• 2 Samuel 14:22

  Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”

• 2 Samuel 14:23

  So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 14:24

  The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.

• 1 Kings 20:32

  So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’” He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

• 1 Kings 20:33

  Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.” Then he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

• 1 Kings 20:34

  Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” “I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

• 2 Kings 8:1

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 2 Kings 25:28

  and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

• 2 Kings 25:29

  and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

• 2 Kings 25:30

  and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 5:12

  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 5:13

  Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even be he shaken out, and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 5:14

  Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

• Nehemiah 5:15

  But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

• Nehemiah 5:16

  Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

• Nehemiah 5:17

  Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.

• Nehemiah 5:18

  Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

• Nehemiah 5:19

  Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

• Esther 2:7

  He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

• Psalms 112:5

  It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

• Proverbs 14:21

  He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

• Proverbs 19:22

  That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

• Proverbs 31:26

  She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

• Isaiah 11:13

  The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

• Jeremiah 39:11

  Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,

• Jeremiah 39:12

  “Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he shall tell you.”

• Zechariah 7:9

  “Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

• Zechariah 7:10

  Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

• Matthew 1:19

  Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

• Matthew 5:7

  Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

• Matthew 5:42

  Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

• Matthew 25:34

  Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

• Matthew 25:35

  for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

• Matthew 25:36

  I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

• Luke 6:30

  Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

• Luke 6:34

  If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

• Luke 6:35

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• Luke 7:2

  A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

• Luke 7:3

  When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.

• Luke 7:4

  When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him,

• Luke 7:5

  for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us.”

• Luke 7:6

  Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

• John 11:19

  Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

• John 11:33

  When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

• John 19:27

  Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

• Acts 20:35

  In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

• Acts 24:23

  He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

• Acts 27:3

  The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

• Acts 27:43

  But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

• Romans 12:15

  Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

• Romans 15:1

  Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

• Romans 15:2

  Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

• Romans 15:5

  Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

• 1 Corinthians 13:5

  doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

• 1 Corinthians 13:6

  doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

• 1 Corinthians 13:7

  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

• Galatians 6:1

  Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

• Galatians 6:2

  Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

• Galatians 6:10

  So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

• Ephesians 4:32

  And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

• Colossians 3:12

  Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

• Colossians 3:14

  Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

• 1 Timothy 5:9

  Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

• 1 Timothy 5:10

  being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

• 2 Timothy 1:16

  May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

• 2 Timothy 1:17

  but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

• 2 Timothy 1:18

  (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

• Hebrews 5:2

  The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

• 1 Peter 3:8

  Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

• 1 Peter 3:9

  not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

• 1 Peter 4:8

  And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

• 2 Peter 1:7

  and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

• 1 John 3:17

  But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

• 1 John 3:18

  My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.