I realize you have shown me great kindness and favored me by saving my life. But please—I can’t run that far. The devastation will surely catch up with me, and I’ll die anyway.

So swear to me right now on the name of your God that you and your people will be honest with me and never try to deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Promise that you will always treat me and this land where you have resided as a foreigner with kindness and grace, as I have treated you.

But when they had gone only a short distance from the city, Joseph spoke to his steward. Joseph: Go now, and follow them. When you catch up to them, say to them, “Why have you repaid kindness with evil? My master’s silver cup is missing, and you have it.

Jethro was thrilled to hear of all the kindness the Eternal had shown Israel, especially how He rescued them from the powerful hand of the Egyptians.

We were in the wilderness of Kedemoth when I sent messengers to King Sihon in Heshbon and offered him these terms of peace:

Spies: You had the power to turn us in, but you saved us. Now we will do the same for you. If you will promise not to tell anyone what we were doing here, then you have our word: we will treat you with kindness and faithfulness when the Eternal One gives us the land.

Boaz (to Ruth): Listen to me, my daughter. Do not go and glean in any other field. In fact, do not go outside my property at all but stay with the young women who work for me following the harvesters and bundling the grain into sheaves.

From there he sent a message to the Kenite people. Message from Saul: Get out! Be gone! You showed kindness to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt. Get away from among the Amalekites, or I will be forced to destroy you with them. So the Kenites left their homes among the Amalekites.

Ask your young men; they will tell you this is true. Please return our kindness and look on my young men with favor since we come on this feast day. Please give whatever you can spare to them and to your son David.”

The Philistines gathered for battle at Aphek, while the armies of Israel camped near the spring of Jezreel.

David: Is anyone from Saul’s family still alive to whom I could show the kindness of God? Ziba: Jonathan has a son who is still alive; he is crippled, unable to use his feet.

David sent for Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth and had him brought to Jerusalem from the house of Machir, son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. When he arrived, Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, grandson of Saul, laid facedown on the floor and honored the king. David: Mephibosheth! Mephibosheth: At your service, my king.

Go out now, and speak with kindness and respect to those who have served you. You can still save the day; but I swear by the Eternal One, if you do not alter this mood now, not a single man will be with you tonight, and this will be the greatest disaster ever to wash over you.

Ben-hadad (to Hazael): Greet him with a gift and with kindness. Ask the man of God to speak with the Eternal One and find out, “Am I going to get well?”

Hazael greeted Elisha with a gift and with kindness. He did as instructed and offered him many excellent items from Damascus—40 camel loads of gifts. Hazael (standing before Elisha): Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, who honors you like a father, has asked me to come to you and ask you, “Am I going to get well?”

Solomon’s Advisors: Listen to their concerns, show them kindness, and please them. Then they will be your subjects and will always respect you.

A despondent person deserves kindness from his friend, even though he strays from the fear of the Highest One.

In Your house, they eat and are full at Your table. They drink from the river of Your overflowing kindness.

With every sun’s rising, surprise us with Your love, satisfy us with Your kindness. Then we will sing with joy and celebrate every day we are alive.

Remember me, O Eternal One, when You show kindness to Your people; don’t forget me when You are saving them.

When our ancestors were leaving Egypt, they did not consider Your marvelous acts. They forgot Your overwhelming kindness to them and instead rebelled at the Red Sea.

Let there be no one around to offer him compassion, nor anyone to give his fatherless children warmth or kindness.

But You, my Master, the Eternal, treat me with kindness for the sake of Your name, the good of Your reputation; because Your unfailing love is so good, O deliver me!

Let those who do right strike me down in kindness and correct me in love. Their kind correction washes over my head like pure oil; do not let me be foolish and refuse such compassion. Still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked:

Kindness is its own reward, but cruelty is a self-inflicted wound.