KINDNESS
(See also Compassion; Empathy; Loyal Love; Mercy; Undeserved Kindness)
avoiding mistaken kindness: w04 4/15 13; w91 7/15 13-14
“become kind” (Eph 4:32): w12 7/15 30
benefits: g20.1 11; w18.11 30; g 11/13 8-9; w91 7/15 15-16, 18-22
kind words: w18.11 29; w94 10/1 32
Bible examples: scl 69; w18.11 29; w91 7/15 18-22
centurion Julius: w91 11/15 27-28
Jehovah: scl 68; w18.11 28; w15 5/15 26; w12 9/1 18; w91 7/15 12
Jesus: lmd lesson 3; w22.03 11; w18.11 29; w15 5/15 26; w09 9/15 9-10
people of Malta (Ac 28): bt 209-210; w02 5/15 19
child training: w22.06 26; mb lesson 3; w07 9/1 22-25; lr 82-86; g99 7/22 29
cultivating: w18.11 29-30
discussion: w22.06 26-28; w18.11 28-30; it-2 153-156; w12 9/1 18-20; w04 4/15 12-22; w91 7/15 12-22
elders to display: w22.02 18; w06 5/1 20
examples:
cares for abusive husband after his stroke: yb05 53
caring for victims of compound tragedy: w04 12/15 22
caring for Witness with terminal illness: w09 9/15 20
change man’s burst tire in freezing weather: ijwex article 3
fellow Witnesses: w18.05 6-7
government’s kindness to conventioners (Guinea): w87 11/1 24
opposed neighbor’s wall rebuilt: w09 6/15 9
relief efforts after Hurricane Gilbert (1988): g89 3/22 27
savings given to needful sister: yb02 48
seats at convention given up: w09 2/15 21
Witness allows elderly lady to see doctor first: km 8/03 1; w02 1/15 19-20
Witness buys food for robbed fellow passengers: yb02 47
Witnesses help girl abandoned to die alongside street: w07 2/15 11
Witnesses help woman pull out bamboo: yb02 61
Witness helps accident victims: g04 8/8 13
Witness helps free wedged couch: km 1/07 1
Witness helps stranded people: g 11/13 8
Witness helps widow having five minor children: w12 9/1 20
Witness translates phone call: km 1/07 1
woman crying by roadside: yb05 50
experiences:
at meetings: yb03 63-64
attracts to truth: w22.06 26-27
box meals after earthquake: w95 11/1 29
cancer victim responds: yb07 64
couple with injured dog: yb03 60-61
doctor’s office: yb00 61-62
editor treated frankly, kindly: w01 1/1 17
elderly ladies assisted: w13 5/15 12; yb08 52; km 10/05 1; yb98 55; yb90 8
flowers for bitter elderly lady: w12 6/15 32
food contractor impressed by Bethelites: yb07 51
groceries bought: w18.08 25; w92 2/15 18
helps immigrant lady with packages: yb10 58-59
impressed by Witness repairman: yb06 62-63
imprisoned drug dealer: yb13 136-137
Japanese youth: w12 9/1 18
kindness after mild reaction to robbery: w91 6/15 26
kindness to KGB officers: w17.08 15
kindness to old man in hospital waiting room: yb06 50
kind response to rude passerby: yb04 46
melts opposition of son of Witness: w17.10 31
mother with husband away: yb00 59-60
multiple sclerosis victim helped with housework: w90 5/1 31
nonretaliation touches heart: yb10 63-64
opposed consensual wife: yb98 250, 252
opposed pastor: yb06 58-60
opposer won over: yb06 50
paraplegic and her parents: yb09 45-46
political prisoner in penal camp: yb08 131-132
prejudice overcome: w92 2/15 18
schoolteacher gives extra help: yb94 57
seasick lady with small child: km 2/01 1
sees Christian treatment of women: g98 4/8 14
shouting opposer visited in hospital: yb05 53
tourist couple attend convention: w12 3/15 32
Witnesses take soup to hospitalized opposer: yb07 235, 238-239
Witness interprets for man at border: wp17.2 13, 15
wood cut: w92 2/15 18
fruitage of God’s spirit: w22.06 28; w18.11 28-30; w11 4/15 24-26; w07 7/15 23-24
godly kindness: w22.06 27-28
Hebrew word: it-2 153-154; w12 11/1 22; w97 8/1 19; w88 3/15 17
in delicate situations: w15 5/15 26
in field ministry: lmd lesson 3; w19.07 21; w12 3/15 13; km 10/05 1; w04 4/15 21-22
Jesus’ yoke “kindly” (Mt 11:30): ijwbv article 28; mwb18.01 7; jy 98; w95 8/15 17-20; gt chapter 39
“law of kindness” (Pr 31:26): w22.06 26-28
link with love: w91 7/15 14-15
link with loyalty: w16.02 29-30
‘love is kind’ (1Co 13:4): cl 303; it-2 277; w93 10/15 21
“love kindness” (Mic 6:8): w12 11/1 22; jd 105-108; w03 8/15 22; w97 8/1 19; w88 3/15 17-19
marriage mates: g 7/08 7
meaning of term: w18.11 28; w12 9/1 18; w04 4/15 12; w91 7/15 12
loving-kindness differs: w10 8/15 21-22; w02 5/15 18-19
relationship to mercy: it-2 378-379
toward all: w22.06 28
toward fellow Christians: w09 9/15 10-11; w97 8/1 18-19
toward strangers: w16.10 8-12
ways of showing: scl 69
when others’ failings are manifest: tp 167-168