'Good Deeds' in the Bible
Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.
"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"
At Joppa there was a woman, a disciple, whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek means Dorcas, that is, Gazelle. She had filled her life with good deeds and works of charity, which she was always doing.
For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.
but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.
must have a reputation for doing good deeds, as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any sort of doing good.
Good deeds, too, are usually very evident, and if they are not, they cannot be completely concealed.
charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted,
Let us continue so to consider one another as to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.
My brothers, what good is there in a man's saying that he has faith, if he has no good deeds to prove it? Such faith cannot save him, can it?
But someone may say, "You have faith, and I have good deeds. Show me your faith without any good deeds, but I will show you mine by my good deeds."
But, O senseless man, are you willing to learn that faith without good deeds is worthless?
Was not our forefather Abraham shown to be upright by his good deeds, namely, by offering Isaac his son upon the altar?
You see that faith cooperated with his good deeds, and by his good deeds faith was made complete;
You see that a man is shown to be upright by his good deeds, and not merely by his faith.
Was not even Rahab the prostitute shown to be upright by her good deeds, namely, by entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road?
Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without good deeds is dead.
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show by his noble living that his good deeds are done in humility, which wisdom prompts.
The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, free from doubts and insincerity.
Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.