Bible Verses About Kindness
This collection includes 32 passages about Kindness. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Reading context: Paul contrasts bitterness and malice with kindness, tenderheartedness and forgiveness. Keep the positive instruction with the conduct it replaces.
Scripture Passages
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Reading context: Jesus speaks about doing good beyond reciprocal relationships, including enemies. Keep the call to mercy with the surrounding teaching rather than making it a formula for financial reward.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Reading context: Kindness appears beside compassion, humility, patience, forgiveness and love in instructions addressed to the community.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Reading context: Paul contrasts bitterness and malice with kindness, tenderheartedness and forgiveness. Keep the positive instruction with the conduct it replaces.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Reading context: Kindness appears beside compassion, humility, patience, forgiveness and love in instructions addressed to the community.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Reading context: Kindness appears beside compassion, humility, patience, forgiveness and love in instructions addressed to the community.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Reading context: Paul describes charity through conduct amid a discussion of spiritual gifts and community life. Patience and kindness belong with the following contrasts and endurance.
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Reading context: Paul describes charity through conduct amid a discussion of spiritual gifts and community life. Patience and kindness belong with the following contrasts and endurance.
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Reading context: Paul describes charity through conduct amid a discussion of spiritual gifts and community life. Patience and kindness belong with the following contrasts and endurance.
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Reading context: Paul describes charity through conduct amid a discussion of spiritual gifts and community life. Patience and kindness belong with the following contrasts and endurance.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Reading context: Gentleness is named among the fruit of the Spirit. Read the list beside its contrast with destructive conduct earlier in the chapter.
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Reading context: Gentleness is named among the fruit of the Spirit. Read the list beside its contrast with destructive conduct earlier in the chapter.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Reading context: Jesus speaks about doing good beyond reciprocal relationships, including enemies. Keep the call to mercy with the surrounding teaching rather than making it a formula for financial reward.
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Reading context: Jesus speaks about doing good beyond reciprocal relationships, including enemies. Keep the call to mercy with the surrounding teaching rather than making it a formula for financial reward.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Reading context: This proverb commends care for the poor. It is wisdom language about generosity, not a schedule or investment guarantee.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Reading context: The prophetic address contrasts extravagant offerings with justice, mercy and walking humbly with God. Kindness belongs with justice rather than replacing it.
And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Reading context: Jesus tells this story after a question about one’s neighbour. The Samaritan’s concrete care and the concluding question belong together; the narrative includes people who pass by as contrasts.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Reading context: Paul links sincere love with honouring others, hospitality, blessing, sharing joy and grief, and humility. The collection retains these practical instructions together.
Reference selection. Read each chapter for context. About
Kindness in this collection includes tenderhearted conduct, practical care and mercy toward people who may not return it. Luke’s account of the Samaritan supplies a narrative about becoming a neighbour; Paul’s letters describe habits within community life. Read the commands and the story in their own settings. The collection connects kindness with forgiveness, justice and sincere love, without treating pleasant words alone as evidence of care.
Read the different settings
A starting collection about caring conduct and mercy, with a complete short narrative and adjacent instructions. It does not claim every relevant passage or equate all agreeable words with kindness.
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What does this collection help me read?
Read concrete instructions and a narrative about care for others, including difficult relationships. It contains 32 passages in KJV, selected as a starting point rather than an exhaustive topical count.
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A starting collection about caring conduct and mercy, with a complete short narrative and adjacent instructions. It does not claim every relevant passage or equate all agreeable words with kindness. Selection and reading notes are machine-assisted; independent human editorial review is pending.
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