'Good News' in the Bible
My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the Good News; not, however, in the language of philosophy, lest the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.
Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.
If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the Good News of the Christ.
So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the Good News should get their living from the Good News.
If I tell the Good News, I have nothing to boast of, for I can but do so. Woe is me if I do not tell it!
What is my reward, then? To present the Good News free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.
And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that with them I may share in its blessings.
Next, Brothers, I would remind you of the Good News which I told you, and which you received-the Good News on which you have taken your stand,