18 Bible Verses about Personal Good

Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.

For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.

It was good for me to be afflicted
so that I could learn Your statutes.

Just as I considered your life valuable today, so may the Lord consider my life valuable and rescue me from all trouble.”

Saul responded, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.”

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

Who is the man who delights in life,
loving a long life to enjoy what is good?

Even though we are speaking this way, dear friends, in your case we are confident of the better things connected with salvation.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,
for then it was better for me than now.”

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea!

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

ט TetThose slain by the sword are better off
than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.