God's Word on That

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  • God’s Kind of Love Is Unfailing

    [God’s kind of] Love is as strong as death; its jealousy unyielding as the grave.  It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.  Many waters cannot quench [His] love.  Rivers cannot wash it away (Song of Songs 8:6-7).

    May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love… (2 Thessalonians 3:5)

    What a man desires is unfailing love… (Proverbs 19:22)

    Though He brings grief, He will show compassion – so great is His unfailing love (Lamentations 3:32).

    For the Lord disciplines those whom He loves, and chastises every child whom He accepts (Hebrews 12:6).

    Those whom I love I reprove and discipline… (Revelation 3:19)

    For whom the Lord loves He reproves, even as a father the son in whom he delights (Proverbs 3:12).

    Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge… (Proverbs 12:1)

    Now as to the love of the brothers… you are taught by God to love one another (1 Thessalonians 4:9).

    God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us (Romans 5:5).

    For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7).

    Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life (Jude 1:21).

    We know love by this: He laid down His life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  But whoever has the world’s goods and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?  Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in both deed and truth (1 John 3:16-18).

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames but have not love, I gain nothing.  Love is patient.  Love is kind.  It does not envy.  It does not boast.  It is not proud.  It is not rude.  It is not self-seeking.  It is not easily angered.  It keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails…  Now these three things remain – faith, hope and love.  But the greatest is love (1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13).

    That through faith Christ may dwell in your hearts in love. With deep roots and firm foundations may you, in company with all God’s people, be strong to grasp what is the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ’s love, and to know it, though it is beyond knowledge. So may you be filled with the very fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19).

  • His Command To Us

    What does the Lord require of you but to act justly; love mercy, and walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).

    And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you this day for your own good? (Deuteronomy 10:12-13)

    You shall therefore love the Lord your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments (Deuteronomy 11:1).

    That you may love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live! (Deuteronomy 30:6)

    To love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees, laws; then you will live… (Deuteronomy 30:16)

    Love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul (Deuteronomy 11:13).

    Love the Lord your God, walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him (Deuteronomy 11:22).

    Love the Lord your God and … walk always in His ways… (Deuteronomy 19:9)

    Take careful heed … to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul (Joshua 22:5).

    This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.  Now choose life so you and your children may live and you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him… (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)

    So be very careful to love the Lord your God (Joshua 23:11).

    Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap the fruit of unfailing love (Hosea 10:12).

    But the world must learn that I love the Father and I do exactly what My Father commands Me (John 14:31).

    If you love Me, you will obey what I command (John 14:15).

    Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me.  He who loves Me will be loved by My Father.  And I too will love him and show Myself to him (John 14:21).

    As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you.  Now remain in My love.  If you obey My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have obeyed My Father’s commands and remain in His love (John 15:9-10).

    This I command you: that you love one another (John 15:17).

    This is My commandment: that you love one another; just as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this: that one lay down his life for his friends (John 15:12-13).

    A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  By this all men will know you are My disciples if you have love for one another (John 13:34-35).

    For this is the message you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another (1 John 3:11).

    And this is His command: that we believe in the name of His Son – Jesus Christ – and love one another just as He commanded us (1 John 3:23).

    That we love one another.  And this is love: that we walk according to His commandments.  This is the commandment: (Just as you have heard from the beginning) that you should walk in it (2 John 1:5-6).

    Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.  And everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.  This is how we know we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out His commands.  This is love for God: to obey His commands; and His commands are not burdensome (1 John 5:1-3).

    Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another.  For he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law.  The commandments… are summed up in this one rule: Love your neighbor as yourself.  Love does no harm to its neighbor.  Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law (Romans 13:8-10).

    To love [God] with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength; and to love your neighbor as yourself – is more important that all burnt offerings and sacrifices (Mark 12:33).

    Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might (Deuteronomy 6:5).

    Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  The second is this; love your neighbor as yourself.  There is no commandment greater than these (Mark 12:30-31).

    Love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord (Leviticus 19:18).

    The stranger who resides with you… you shall love as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.  I am the Lord your God (Leviticus 19:34).

    Also foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve Him, to love the name of the Lord and to worship Him… Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer (Isaiah 56:6-7).

    If, however, you are fulfilling the Royal Law (according to scripture) – you shall love your neighbor as yourself – you are doing well (James 2:8).

    Do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word; in the statement “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. (Galatians 5:13-14)

    The goal of this commandment [actually all His commandments] is love, which comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith (1 Timothy 1:5).

  • Study On Love

    Well, we climbed the ladder of Fruits of the Spirit. We made it to the top: Love. There are many, many verses of love in God’s Word, and many, many, many quotes on what love is and what love can be and what love means to creatures as well as to the Creator. But I believe the most important one to meditate on is that God’s kind of love – Agape or Hesed – is not about a feeling but about a willful action.

    This is God’s love – in and for me, without which I am nothing.  It cannot be merited, earned or deserved.   And we cannot do anything bad enough to chase God away!  We have to change our mindset on what love is. According to God’s Word, love is strong affection, charity, benevolence, a giving to others; any kind of deliverance from selfishness.

    No love is more powerful, more intense, more continuous, more pure, or more full-of-delight in the beloved than the love of God the Father for God the Son!  It is an energy of joy that makes atom bombs look like fire crackers.

    And Jesus tells us, “As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you” (John 15:9). Then He continues on to say, “…love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12).

    Love needs an object to whom it can give itself away, in whom it can lose itself, with whom it can make itself one.  The nature of love is always one, however different the object.

    Love feeds on truth and when our hearts begin to know the truth of how God loves and desires us all, and who we are in Him, we are transformed from being weak in heart to bold in love!  We are renewed by the knowledge of what we look like to Him. 

    Until you have a proper sense of self-love, a healthy and wholesome self-esteem, you are not able to freely and fully love someone else.  You don’t give yourself to others or consider them valuable if you don’t first of all consider yourself worthy.  Meditate on this: Love draws upon the resourcefulness of one’s own esteem in order to have sufficient supply to release it to someone else.  It takes personal security to do this.

    We succumb to society’s false judgment of our worth.  As a result, a large segment of the population is plagued by feelings of worthlessness, inferiority, and self-condemnation.  God has not equally distributed gifts, talents, and intellect, but He has equally distributed Himself.  Our sense of worth must come from knowing who we are as children of the Great King.  Something happens to us when we become convinced that our Heavenly Father is aware of and involved in our activities, and is, in fact, applauding our lives.

    It is tempting for us to want to be like someone else, to be dissatisfied with who we are and what we can do.  Yet God made us to be what He wanted us to be – what we are now.  We should be content with who we are – it is only a work in progress anyway.  It is so liberating to accept yourself!

    I learned early on to respond to people who ask “Who do you think you are?” with a slew of scripture verses: “I’m more than a conqueror; I’m a chosen generation; I’m a royal priesthood, a peculiar person; God is for me, so who can be against me?  I am a child of the One True King…

    The Word of God is full of verses that tell us we are worthy to receive God’s promises.  But remember that you can say all the right verses you want, yet if your heart doesn’t believe you are what you say you are, your promise will stay in lay-away until you are ready to claim it.

    The depth of God’s love:

    [You have shown] the wonder of Your great love (Psalm 17:7).

    God demonstrates His own love for us in this: that while we were still sinners Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

    For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believed in Him shall not die but have eternal life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him (John 3:16-17).

    See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called Sons of God! (1 John 3:1)

    Heirs of the Kingdom – which He promised to those who love Him (James 2:5).

    God, our Father, who loved us (2 Thessalonians 2:16).

    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  … We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that… nothing in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35-39).

    For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight – in love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons… in accordance with His pleasure and will (Ephesians 1:4-5).

    But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions (Ephesians 2:4-5).

    I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me (Galatians 2:20).

    I in them and You in Me.  May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me (John 17:23).

    That the love You have for Me may be in them and that I Myself may be in them (John 17:26).

    For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed I came from the Father (John 16:27).

    What wonderful things God has ready for those who love Him! (1 Corinthians 2:9)

  • Our Calling Is To Peace

    Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of the Spirit in the binding power of peace (Ephesians 4:3).

    Be at peace and strive to live in harmony with one another (Mark 9:50).

    For God has called us to peace(1 Corinthians 7:15).

    So far as it is up to you, live at peace with everyone( Romans 12:18).

    Remind the people… to be peaceable and considerate… (Titus 3:1-2)

    Live in peace with one another (1 Thessalonians 5:13).

    All [Wisdom’s] paths are peace (Proverbs 3:17).

    Pursue peace with everyone… (Hebrews 12:14)

    That we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness (1 Timothy 2:2).

    The mind set on the spirit is life and peace (Romans 8:6).

    Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule… (Galatians6:16)

    A heart of peace gives life to the body… (Proverbs 14:30)

    The Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17).

    Those who walk uprightly enter into peace… (Isaiah 57:2)

    Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright, for the future of that man is peace (Psalm 37:37).

    For the counselors of peace there is joy (Proverbs 12:20).

    Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God (Matthew 5:9).

    When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him (Proverbs 16:7).

    But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace (Psalm 37:11).

    How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace… (Isaiah 52:7)

    Behold on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace… (Nahum 1:15)

    Having shod your fee with the preparation of the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15).

    Send him on his way in peace… (1 Corinthians 16:11)

    Yield now and be at peace with Him… (Job 22:21)

    May grace and peace be given you in increasing abundance (1 Peter 1:2).

    To all God’s beloved ones… grace, spiritual blessings, and peace be yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 1:7).

    Peace be to the brothers (Ephesians 6:23).

    May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:2).

    The Lord bless you and keep you.  The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.  The Lord lift up His countenance on you and give you His peace (Numbers 6:24-26).

  • The Price to Gain Peace

    And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself [the Father], whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him[the Son], [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His Cross (Colossians 1:20).

    To give knowledge of salvation to His people… To shine upon and to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.  To direct and guide our feet in a straight line into the way of peace (Luke 1:77, 79).

    Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things which make for peace (for freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin and upon which your peace – your security, safety, prosperity, and happiness – depends)! (Luke 19:42)

    A time of war and a time of peace… (Ecclesiastes 3:8)

    The punishment that brought us peace was put on Him… (Isaiah 53:5)

    Therefore since we are justified (acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, [let us grasp the fact that] we have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1).

    Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as a member of His body you were called to peace… (Colossians 3:15)

    Be like-minded; live in peace.  And the God of love and the Author and Promoter of peace will be with you (2 Corinthians 13:11).

    So then let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another (Romans 14:19).

    Be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless (2 Peter 3:14).

    Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace (Jeremiah 29:7).

    Render the truth and pronounce the judgment or verdict that makes for peace in [the courts at] your gates (Zechariah 8:16).

    Thus says the Lord of Hosts… love truth and peace (Zechariah 8:19).

    You will go out [from the spiritual exile caused by sin and evil into the homeland] with joy and be led forth [by your Leader, the Lord Himself, and His word] with peace… (Isaiah 55:12)

    Glory and honor and [heart] peace shall be awarded to everyone who [habitually] does good… (Romans 2:10)

    And the effect of righteousness will be peace [internal and external]… (Isaiah 32:17)

    You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You (Isaiah 26:3).

    Search for peace and seek it eagerly.  [Do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, and with yourself, but pursue, go after them!] (1 Peter 3:11)

    Pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart (2 Timothy 2:22).

    No discipline seems pleasant…  However, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it (Hebrews 12:11).

  • Our God of Peace

    God is not a God of confusion, but of peace… (1 Corinthians 14:33)

    I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth (Jeremiah 33:6).

    I shall also grant peace in the land… (Leviticus 26:6)

    He grants peace to your borders… (Psalm 147:14)

    He will speak the word and peace shall come to the nations… (Zechariah 9:10)

    The abundant prosperity and peace I provide… (Jeremiah 33:9)

    The God of peace [who is the Author and Giver of peace]… (Hebrews 13:20)

    The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet… (Romans 16:20)

    His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Might God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.  There will be no end to the increase of His government, or of peace… (Isaiah 9:6-7)

    And He will be our peace… (Micah 5:5)

    Behold, I give him My covenant of peace (Numbers 25:12).

    The wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.  Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness (James 3:17-18).

    The Word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (Acts 10:36).

    For He Himself is our peace…  That in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace… He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near (Ephesians 2:14-17).

    He will be a Priest on His throne and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices [Priest and King] (Zechariah 6:13).

    The Word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (Acts 10:36).

    Peace I leave with you.  My peace I give to you.  Not as the world gives do I give to you… (John 14:27)

    These things I have spoken to you that in Me you may have/find peace… (John 16:33)

    Now may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you peace in every circumstance… (2 Thessalonians 3:16)

    Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in your believing… (Romans 15:13)

    The peace of God which surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7).

    May God Himself, the God of Peace, sanctify you through and through… (1 Thessalonians 5:23)

    Now the God of peace be with you all.  Amen. (Romans 15:33)

  • Study On Peace

    Jesus had a special kind of peace.  He slept during a storm while the disciples fed their fears.  This is the peace He left us before His trial and death.  He thought it of high importance, so it is worth sacrifices in our lives to maintain.  It is more precious than being right.  It is a powerful weapon against thoughts from the devil.  It can save us from turmoil and despair.

    Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is well pleased (Luke 2:14).

    The Lord… will speak peace to His people…  Righteousness and peace have kissed each other (Psalm 85:8, 10). [We have both while we stand with Jesus.]

    For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for peace and not for calamity (Jeremiah 29:11).

    The Lord will bless His people with peace (Psalm 29:11).

    Lord, You establish peace for us… (Isaiah 26:12)

    I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant and I will give blessings to them… (Ezekiel 37:26)

    My covenant with him was one of life and peace…  He walked with Me in peace and uprightness… (Malachi 2:5-6)

    Let them take hold of My strength and make complete surrender to My protection, that they may make peace with Me. Yes, let them make peace with Me (Isaiah 27:5).

    He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me… (Psalm 55:18)

    My covenant of peace will not be removed, says the Lord who has compassion on you (Isaiah 54:10).

    Let your heart keep My commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you (Proverbs 3:1-2).

    My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest (Isaiah 32:18).

    I will make a covenant of peace with them and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land… (Ezekiel 34:25)

    In this place I shall give peace and prosperity, declares the Lord of Hosts (Haggai 2:9).

    For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will extend peace to [Jerusalem] like a river… (Isaiah 66:12)

    I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler (Isaiah 60:17).

    Those who love Your law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble (Psalm 119:165).

    In peace I will lie down and sleep, for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety (Psalm 4:8).

  • Patience Has Rewards

    And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you.  For the Lord is a God of justice.  Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]! (Isaiah 30:18)

    [God] will render to every man according to his deeds: to those who, by patient persistence in doing good, seek for glory and honor and [the eternal blessings of] immortality, He will give eternal life (Romans 2:6-7).

    Let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us…  Just think of Him who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds (Hebrews 12:1, 3).

    Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.  May the God who gives both endurance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind… (Romans 15:4-5)

    For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised (Hebrews 10:36).

    Endure hardships as discipline.  God is treating you as sons.  For what son is not disciplined by his father? (Hebrews 12:7)

    By your steadfastness and patient endurance you shall win the true life of your souls (Luke 21:19).

    [Let us also be full of joy now!] Let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.  And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character (of this sort) produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation (Romans 5:3-4).

    If we hope for what we do not see, we wait eagerly for it with perseverance (Romans 8:25).

    If we are afflicted… it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer (2 Corinthians 1:6).

    But those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

    Make every effort to add to your faith… patient endurance… (2 Peter 1:5-6)

    The Lord’s servants must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone. They must be able to teach effectively and be patient with difficult people. (2 Timothy 2:24)

    Therefore my dear brothers, be steadfast, immoveable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58).

    As for you keep your head in all situations; endure hardships… (2 Timothy 4:5)

    Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness (1 Timothy 6:11).

    Endure hardships with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 2:3).

    If we endure, we will also reign with Him… (2 Timothy 2:12)

    Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes… (1 Corinthians 4:5)

  • Promises For Kindness

    To be tender and gentle, as Jesus was, is to be moved with compassion.  Kindness is an attitude, a disposition, a tender concern for others – grace to mellow what is harsh.  This attitude is to believe the best of everyone (and anyone).  Most people don’t want to be mean on purpose.  Jesus told us to go and figure out what “mercy” means.

    May the Lord show kindness to you, as you have shown to me (Ruth 1:8).

    Blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy (Matthew 5:7).

    A merciful, kind, and generous man benefits himself [for his deeds return to bless him]… (Proverbs 11:17)

    A kind word cheers [a man] up. (Proverbs 12:25)

    Blessed is he who is kind to the needy (Proverbs 14:21).

    Whoever is kind to the needy honors God (Proverbs 14:31).

    He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will reward him for what he has done (Proverbs 19:17).

    The Lord bless him… [for] he has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead… (Ruth 2:20)

    A kindhearted woman gains respect… (Proverbs 11:16)

    She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue (Proverbs 31:26).

    But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy [that is, readiness to help those in trouble] and not sacrifice… (Matthew 9:13)

    Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty (Job 6:14).

    Love is kind… (1 Corinthians 13:4)

  • We Are To Be Good People

    To purify for Himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good (Titus 2:14).

    I know there is nothing better for men than to be happy and to do good while they live (Ecclesiastes 3:12). 

    A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil.  For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks (Luke 6:45).

    Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good (Job 34:4).

    Ask where the good way is and work in it, and you will find rest for your souls (Jeremiah 6:16).

    You will understand what is right and just and fair – every good path…  Thus you will walk in the ways of good men… (Proverbs 2:9, 20)

    Loving-kindness and mercy, loyalty and faithfulness shall be [granted] to those who devise good (Proverbs 14:22).

    He who heeds the Word wisely will find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he (Proverbs 16:20).

    Do not be misled.  Bad company corrupts good behavior (1 Corinthians 15:33).

    He has shown you, O man, what is good.  And what does the Lord require of you but to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).

    Anyone who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins (James 4:17).

    Do not withhold good from those who deserve it… (Proverbs 3:27)

    I, myself, am convinced, my brother, that you yourselves are full of goodness… (Romans 15:14)

    I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil (Romans 16:19).

    Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you (Luke 6:27).

    Turn from evil and do good (Psalm 37:27).

    Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21).

    Be ready to do whatever is good (Titus 3:1).

    In everything set them an example by doing what is good (Titus 2:7).

    So that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good.  These things [that are good are good for everyone] and are excellent and profitable for everyone (Titus 3:8).

    May the God of peace… equip you with everything good for doing His will (Hebrews 13:20-21).

    All scripture is God-breathed… so the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

    God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all you need, you will abound in every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8).

    Let us not become weary in doing good…  As we have opportunity, let us do good to all people… (Galatians 6:9-10)

    For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works… (Ephesians 2:10)

    [May our Father] by His grace give us eternal encouragement and good hope [to] encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17).

    Trust in the Lord and do good… (Psalm 37:3)

    Let your light shine before men so they may see your good deeds and worship your Father in Heaven (Matthew 5:16).

    His master replied: well done, good and faithful servant… (Matthew 25:21, 13)