18 Bible Verses about Personal Good

Look out for the interest of others and not only for your own personal interest.

If you do not eat blood, things will go well for you and your descendants. You will be doing what Jehovah considers right.

If you obey these laws, you will be doing what Jehovah your God says is right and good. Then he will help you and your descendants succeed.

Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

They disciplined us for a few days for their own pleasure. He disciplines for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

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

I valued and saved your life today. I pray that you will value and save my life and that Jehovah will deliver me out of tribulation.

My servant David, Saul said, I have sinned. Come back. I will not harm you again. You valued my life today. I have acted like a fool. I made a terrible mistake.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good. The evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth that which is evil. Out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Yes, for this very reason you do your part with all diligence. Supply virtue to your faith. Add knowledge to your virtue.

Which of you wants a full life? Who would like to live long enough to enjoy good things?

Even though we speak this way, beloved, we are convinced that you will have better things, things that belong to salvation.

She will follow after her lovers but she will not reach them. She will seek them, but will not find them! She will say: 'I will return to my first husband for it was better for me then.'

It is written that the Son of man will depart. The man who betrays him will experience much grief. It would have been better if that man had not been born.

The Son of man goes even as it is written of him. Woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better if he had not been born.

He who causes one of my faithful little ones to stumble is in trouble. It would be better for him to end up in the deep sea with a great stone tied to his neck.

Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.

Those killed by the sword are better off than those who died of starvation. For these die slowly and waste away from lack of food from the field.