(1) Kindness will be multiplied.

Besides all this, we should be grateful to the Lord our God, for putting us to the test, as he did our forefathers. (Jud 8:25)

My days are swifter than a runner, they flee away; they see no happiness; (Job 9:25)

But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, The work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see; They have ears, but they cannot hear; They have noses, but they cannot smell; They have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk; They cannot make a sound with their throat. (Ps 115:3-7)

Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house. (Ezek 12:2)

Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.’ (Matt 13:11-13)

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said: «He blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and be converted, and I would heal them.» (John 12:39-40)

Hence I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? Of course not! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous. Now if their transgression is enrichment for the world, and if their diminished number is enrichment for the Gentiles, how much more their full number. (Rom 11:11-12)

He said to them, «You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. (John 8:23)