What Does the Bible Say About Speak Kindness?

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 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.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 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?

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 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.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

John 3:16 ESV / 2 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.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” ...

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Amos 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, 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.”

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

Deuteronomy 26:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 Bible Verses about Speak Kindness

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 26:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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25 Bible Verses about Speak Kindness

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Colossians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 26:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote