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Want to know what the Bible says about Kindness? Here are 213 Bible verses about Kindness from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 15:1 NIV
A gentle answer turns away wrath,
    but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Genesis 21:23 NIV
Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”
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Psalm 141:5 NIV
Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
    let him rebuke me —that is oil on my head.
My head will not refuse it,
    for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
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1 Samuel 20:15 NIV
and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family —not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
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Psalm 31:21 NIV
Praise be to the Lord,
    for he showed me the wonders of his love
    when I was in a city under siege.
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Ruth 2:20 NIV
“The Lord bless him! ” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.
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1 Samuel 20:14 NIV
But show me unfailing kindness like the Lord’s kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed,
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2 Samuel 2:5 NIV
he sent messengers to them to say to them, “The Lord bless you for showing this kindness to Saul your master by burying him.
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Genesis 24:12 NIV
Then he prayed, “Lord, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
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1 Samuel 15:6 NIV
Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
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