Kindness
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KINDNESS.The pattern of all kindness is set before us in the Bible in the behaviour of God to our race. He gives the sunshine and the rain, and fruitful seasons and glad hearts, food and all the good they have to the just and the unjust alike (Mat_5:45; Mat_7:11, Act_14:17). But the exceeding wealth of His grace is shown unto us in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus (Eph_2:7). Gods glory no man can look upon and live. It is a light that no man can approach unto. It is inconceivably great, incomprehensibly grand, unimaginably exalted above the grasp of mans mind. But the kindness of God is Gods glory stooping to mans need. It is Gods power brought within mans reach. It is Gods mercy and Gods love and Gods grace flowing through time and through eternity, as broad as the race, as deep as mans need, as long as mans immortality. The Bible reveals it. Jesus incarnated it. In His life the kindness of God found its supreme manifestation (Tit_3:4-7). All the children of God are to be like the Father in this regard (Mat_5:48, Rom_12:10, Col_3:12-14). The philanthropy of God (Tit_3:4) is to be reproduced in the philanthropy of men (2Pe_1:7).
D. A. Hayes.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Like many words that indicate qualities of character and behaviour, kindness has a very broad meaning. It may be well understood through the study of a number of words closely associated with it.
In older versions of the English Bible, kindness is one of the words used to denote Gods covenant love for Israel (Mic_6:8; see LOVE, sub-heading Steadfast love). It is also used in connection with Gods goodness, patience and forbearance (Rom_2:4; Gal_5:22-23; Tit_3:4; see GOODNESS; MERCY). Christians likewise are to be kind, particularly in being patient with people and circumstances that test or annoy them (2Co_6:6; Eph_4:32; Col_3:12-13; see PATIENCE). The meekness of Christ is a demonstration of his kindness (Mat_11:28-30; see MEEKNESS).
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.
kı̄nd?nes (חסד, ḥeṣedh; χρηστότης, chrēstótēs): ?Kindness? in the Old Testament is (with one exception) the translation of ḥeṣedh, ?kindness,? ?favor,? ?mercy,? etc., used chiefly of man but also of God (Gen_20:13; Gen_40:14; 1Sa_15:6; 1Sa_20:14, 1Sa_20:15; 2Sa_9:3; Neh_9:17; Psa_141:5; Isa_54:8, Isa_54:10, etc.); ṭōbh, ?good,? is once so translated (2Sa_2:6). In the New Testament chrēstotēs, ?usefulness,? ?beneficence,? is rendered ?kindness? 4 t in the King James Version (2Co_6:6; Eph_2:7; Col_3:12; Tit_3:4, and in Gal_5:22 the Revised Version (British and American)); see GENTLENESS; GOODNESS. Philanthrōpı̄a, ?love of mankind,? is translated ?kindness? Act_28:2), and philadelphı̄a, ?love of the brotherhood? (2Pe_1:7, the English Revised Version ?love of the brethren,? the American Revised Version margin ?Gr, love of the brethren?).
For ?kindness? (Psa_31:21) the Revised Version (British and American) has ?lovingkindness,? and the American Standard Revised Version in other places where the reference is to God; for ?shew,? ?shewed kindness? (Jos_2:12) ?deal,? ?dealt kindly?; for ?The desire of man is his kindness? (Pro_19:22) the American Standard Revised Version has ?That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness,? the English Revised Version ?The desire of man is (the measure of) his kindness,? like the American Standard Revised Version in m; for ?merciful kindness? (Psa_117:2) the American Standard Revised Version has ?lovingkindness,? the English Revised Version ?mercy ?; both have ?lovingkindness? (Psa_119:76); for ?of great kindness? (Neh_9:17; Joe_2:13; Jon_4:2) the American Standard Revised Version has ?abundant in lovingkindness,? the English Revised Version ?plenteous in mercy?; the Revised Version (British and American) has ?kindness? for ?mercy? (Gen_39:21); for ?pity? (Job_6:14); for ?goodness? (Pro_20:6); ?favor and kindness? the American Standard Revised Version, for ?grace and favor? (Est_2:17). See LOVINGKINDNESS; MERCY.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
D. A. Hayes.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Like many words that indicate qualities of character and behaviour, kindness has a very broad meaning. It may be well understood through the study of a number of words closely associated with it.
In older versions of the English Bible, kindness is one of the words used to denote Gods covenant love for Israel (Mic_6:8; see LOVE, sub-heading Steadfast love). It is also used in connection with Gods goodness, patience and forbearance (Rom_2:4; Gal_5:22-23; Tit_3:4; see GOODNESS; MERCY). Christians likewise are to be kind, particularly in being patient with people and circumstances that test or annoy them (2Co_6:6; Eph_4:32; Col_3:12-13; see PATIENCE). The meekness of Christ is a demonstration of his kindness (Mat_11:28-30; see MEEKNESS).
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.
kı̄nd?nes (חסד, ḥeṣedh; χρηστότης, chrēstótēs): ?Kindness? in the Old Testament is (with one exception) the translation of ḥeṣedh, ?kindness,? ?favor,? ?mercy,? etc., used chiefly of man but also of God (Gen_20:13; Gen_40:14; 1Sa_15:6; 1Sa_20:14, 1Sa_20:15; 2Sa_9:3; Neh_9:17; Psa_141:5; Isa_54:8, Isa_54:10, etc.); ṭōbh, ?good,? is once so translated (2Sa_2:6). In the New Testament chrēstotēs, ?usefulness,? ?beneficence,? is rendered ?kindness? 4 t in the King James Version (2Co_6:6; Eph_2:7; Col_3:12; Tit_3:4, and in Gal_5:22 the Revised Version (British and American)); see GENTLENESS; GOODNESS. Philanthrōpı̄a, ?love of mankind,? is translated ?kindness? Act_28:2), and philadelphı̄a, ?love of the brotherhood? (2Pe_1:7, the English Revised Version ?love of the brethren,? the American Revised Version margin ?Gr, love of the brethren?).
For ?kindness? (Psa_31:21) the Revised Version (British and American) has ?lovingkindness,? and the American Standard Revised Version in other places where the reference is to God; for ?shew,? ?shewed kindness? (Jos_2:12) ?deal,? ?dealt kindly?; for ?The desire of man is his kindness? (Pro_19:22) the American Standard Revised Version has ?That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness,? the English Revised Version ?The desire of man is (the measure of) his kindness,? like the American Standard Revised Version in m; for ?merciful kindness? (Psa_117:2) the American Standard Revised Version has ?lovingkindness,? the English Revised Version ?mercy ?; both have ?lovingkindness? (Psa_119:76); for ?of great kindness? (Neh_9:17; Joe_2:13; Jon_4:2) the American Standard Revised Version has ?abundant in lovingkindness,? the English Revised Version ?plenteous in mercy?; the Revised Version (British and American) has ?kindness? for ?mercy? (Gen_39:21); for ?pity? (Job_6:14); for ?goodness? (Pro_20:6); ?favor and kindness? the American Standard Revised Version, for ?grace and favor? (Est_2:17). See LOVINGKINDNESS; MERCY.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
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