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Definition Of Kindness Essay

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In today’s time with people coming and going, remembering and forgetting everything, kindness is deemed to be one of the remembered and forgotten characteristics of the world and Christians. For many people if you were to try to learn kindness it would be very hard to find someone in the midst of our world to learn it from. Furthermore, what it means to be kind and how to be kind. Kindness is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as showing a friendly, generous and considerate character. It has been defined in a news article that kindness is something that makes the world a better place and that you should be honored if you are showing it. With all of the world’s opinions of what kindness is, what does the Bible say about it?! In Romans 2, it tells

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