If you talk about a particular kind of thing, you are talking about one of the types or sorts of that thing.

If you refer to someone's kind, you are referring to all the other people that are like them or that belong to the same class or set.

You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.

You use kind of when you want to say that something or someone can be roughly described in a particular way.

You can use of a kind to indicate that something is not as good as it might be expected to be, but that it seems to be the best that is possible or available.

If you refer to someone or something as one of a kind, you mean that there is nobody or nothing else like them.

If you refer, for example, to two, three, or four of a kind, you mean two, three, or four similar people or things that seem to go well or belong together.

If you respond in kind, you react to something that someone has done to you by doing the same thing to them.

If you pay a debt in kind, you pay it in the form of goods or services and not money.