'What is Good' in the Bible

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

But he replied, "You're talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?" In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God.

He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

But examine all things; hold fast to what is good.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.

For who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good?

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.