61 Bible Verses about God, Goodness Of

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

You are good and do good;
Teach me Your statutes.

For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon

“You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst.

A Psalm of Asaph.
Surely God is good to Israel,
To those who are pure in heart!

Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;
Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

The Lord is good to all,
And His mercies are over all His works.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

Praise the Lord!
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.
Good and upright is the Lord;
Therefore He instructs sinners in the way.

Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,

For the Lord is good;
His lovingkindness is everlasting
And His faithfulness to all generations.

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

Thus they told him, and said, “We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

and you and the Levite and the alien who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

“Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the Lord your God spoke concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed. It shall come about that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Now, O Lord God, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.

Now, O Lord, You are God, and have promised this good thing to Your servant.

“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant.

“For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your ordinances are good.

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

O taste and see that the Lord is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

The Lord is good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble,
And He knows those who take refuge in Him.

And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”

Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and to His people Israel.

Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of men!
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man;
You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord gives grace and glory;
No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.

Seek good and not evil, that you may live;
And thus may the Lord God of hosts be with you,
Just as you have said!
Hate evil, love good,
And establish justice in the gate!
Perhaps the Lord God of hosts
May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me.

Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life,
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
Sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.

When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the Lord saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,” then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

All the sons of Israel, seeing the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave praise to the Lord, saying, “Truly He is good, truly His lovingkindness is everlasting.”

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

They shall eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodness
And will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.