(102) Be kind.

To be kind is to receive right in truth,
love in mercy, a soul in the Holy Spirit.

References:

  • You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. (Mic 6:8)

  • If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master.» (Gen 4:7)

  • Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. (Ps 34:14)

  • It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; he will maintain his cause in judgment. For he will never be shaken; the righteous will be remembered forever. (Ps 112:5-6)

  • A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks. (Luke 6:45)

  • The tongue of the wise pours out knowledge, but the mouth of fools spurts forth folly. (Prov 15:2)

  • For: «Whoever would love life and see good days must keep the tongue from evil and the lips from speaking deceit, must turn from evil and do good, seek peace and follow after it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears turned to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against evildoers.» Now who is going to harm you if you are enthusiastic for what is good? (1 Pet 3:10-13)

  • all good giving and every perfect gift 9 is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change. (James 1:17)

  • May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, furnish you with all that is good, that you may do his will. May he carry out in you what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever (and ever). Amen. (Heb 13:20-21)

  • (And) be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. (Eph 4:32)

  • Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does what is good is of God; whoever does what is evil has never seen God. (3 John 1:11)