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100 Bible Verses about Kind

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 314 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 250 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 151 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 151 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Luke 6:35 ESV / 139 helpful votes

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Proverbs 11:17 ESV / 125 helpful votes

A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Acts 28:2 ESV / 102 helpful votes

The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 100 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 97 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 94 helpful votes

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 92 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ruth 3:10 ESV / 88 helpful votes

And he said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.

2 Peter 1:7 ESV / 83 helpful votes

And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 80 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Ephesians 2:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes

So that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 54:8 ESV / 79 helpful votes

In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer.

Luke 6:27-31 ESV / 78 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 76 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 76 helpful votes

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

Proverbs 11:16-17 ESV / 76 helpful votes

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches. A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.

Titus 3:4 ESV / 75 helpful votes

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,

Romans 12:10 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Psalm 141:5 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

2 Samuel 9:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes

And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.”

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 68 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Psalm 117:2 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!

Joel 2:13 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 63 helpful votes

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Genesis 21:23 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”

Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 60 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 58 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Romans 11:22 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Jeremiah 9:24 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

John 3:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 51 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 51 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Proverbs 11:24-25 ESV / 47 helpful votes

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Ruth 2:20 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 46 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Romans 12:9-13 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Psalm 34:8 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 44 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 44 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Genesis 24:14 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”

Genesis 24:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And he said, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 43 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 31:21 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.

1 Samuel 20:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

And do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”

Genesis 20:13 ESV / 42 helpful votes

And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

2 Corinthians 6:6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

By purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 41 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Joshua 2:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

1 Samuel 20:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes

If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the Lord, that I may not die;

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 37 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Acts 14:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

1 Kings 2:7 ESV / 36 helpful votes

But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

Genesis 40:14 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 2:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes

If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

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

Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

1 Kings 3:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.

2 Samuel 2:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

John 13:34 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Judges 8:35 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.

James 3:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Zechariah 1:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And the Lord answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 24 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Luke 6:38 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

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