If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.  1 Corinthians 13

1. Love is patient

2. Love is kind: 1 Cor. 13:4-7

a. Defining kindness:

Attitude: inward experiences of personal care and compassion producing a desire for the happiness and welfare of others.

Action: outward conduct contributing to the happiness, welfare, and supportive companionship to others.

b. Relationship between patience and kindness: Eph. 4:20-24

c. God’s kindness toward us

Tonight

d. Our kindness towards others

– Kindness heard by uplifting words

1. Kindness speaks valuable words: Prov. 10:20

2. Kindness speaks powerful words: Prov. 12:25

3. Kindness speaks timely words: Prov. 15:23

4. Kindness speaks healthy words: Prov. 16:24

5. Kindness speaks attractive words: Prov. 25:11

6. Kindness speaks teaching words: Prov. 31:26

– Kindness displayed by sacrificial deeds: 1 John 3:17-18, 1 Sam. 20:12-17, 2 Sam. 9:2-3,
2 San. 9:4-13

– Kindness experienced by a burden-carrying life: Gal. 6:2, Luke 10:33-35

1. The Good Samaritan saw need

2. The Good Samaritan was compassionately moved by the need

3. The Good Samaritan went to the need

4. The Good Samaritan met the need

5. The Good Samaritan followed up on the need