Bible Verses about “acts of kindness”
The Bible contains 27 verses about acts of kindness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."”
“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.'"”
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;”
“"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,”
“"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.”
“My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.”
“bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.”
“Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.”
“To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.”