18 Bible Verses about Personal Good

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

"that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."

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

It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.

Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the LORD, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation."

Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake."

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

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

What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things--things that belong to salvation.

She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.'

The Son of Man goes as it is written of 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 goes as it is written of 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 one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.