Post on 28-Dec-2015
Proverbs 3:3
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
The Virtue of Kindness
Often translated as MERCY or GOODNESS
Often used in descriptions of God’s love.
Colossians 3:12
So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;
2 Peter 1:5
“Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love…..”
Kindness In Action
An act of kindness from Abraham Lincoln.
“Day to day” demonstrations of kindness.
The Virtue of Truthfulness
Proverbs 23:23 -- Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.
How important are these virtues?
Bind them around your neck…
Write them on the tablet of your heart…
Deuteronomy 6:6-8
“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart…you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead….