'Good news' in the Bible

Then he went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or sickness among the people.

Jesus went round among all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or illness.

The blind are regaining their sight and the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.

I tell you, wherever this good news is preached all over the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.

After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God,

saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me and for the good news will preserve it.

Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,

For before the end the good news must be preached to all the heathen.

I tell you, wherever the good news is preached all over the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.

The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

The angel said to them, "Do not be frightened, for I bring you good news of a great joy that is to be felt by all the people,

So with many varied exhortations he would preach the good news to the people,

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, for that is what I was sent to do."

And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

Soon afterward he went about among the villages and towns preaching and telling the good news of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve went with him,

And they set forth and went from village to village, telling the good news and curing people everywhere.

One day as he was teaching the people in the Temple, and preaching the good news, the high priests and scribes came up with the elders

and they did not for a single day stop teaching and preaching in the Temple and in private houses the good news of Jesus, the Christ.

Those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism.

After they had given their testimony and delivered the Lord's message, they went back to Jerusalem, telling the good news in many Samaritan villages on the way.

Then Philip began, and starting from this passage, he told him the good news about Jesus.

while Philip found himself at Ashdod and went on telling the good news in all the towns all the way to Caesarea.

He has sent his message to Israel's descendants, and made the good news of peace known to them through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of us all.

There were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them, however, who when they reached Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, and told them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

So we now bring you the good news

and there they went on preaching the good news.

and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

They proclaimed the good news in that town and made a number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

After a long discussion, Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose that of you all I should be the one from whose lips the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

But Paul and Barnabas stayed on in Antioch and taught, and with many others preached the good news of the Lord's message.

As soon as he had this vision, we made efforts to get on to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to tell them the good news.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some of them said, "What is this rag-picker trying to make out?" Others said, "He seems to be preaching some foreign deities." This was because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

So, for my part, I am eager to preach the good news to you at Rome also.

For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.

on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

And how are men to preach unless they are sent to do it? As the Scripture says, "How welcome is the coming of those who bring good news!"

It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God on your account; but from the point of view of God's choice, they are dear to him because of their forefathers,

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.

What pay then do I get? Why, that in my preaching I can offer the good news without cost, and so not take full advantage of my rights as a preacher.

And I do it all for the sake of the good news, so that I may share in its blessings along with the rest.

Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,

When I went to Troas to preach the good news of the Christ there, I found a good opening for the Lord's work,

If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

I am sending with him his brother, who is famous in all the churches for his work in spreading the good news.

The way you stand the test of this service must do honor to God, through your fidelity to what you profess as to the good news of Christ, and through the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others;

It is no strain for me to do this, as it might be for people who had never got so far, for I was the first to come all the way to you with the good news of the Christ.

Do you think that I did wrong in degrading myself to uplift you, because I preached God's good news to you without any compensation?

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

But even if we or an angel from heaven preach to you good news that contradicts the good news we have preached to you, a curse upon him!

We have said it before, and I repeat it now??f anyone is preaching to you good news that contradicts the good news you have already received, a curse upon him!

For I tell you plainly, brothers, that the good news that I preached is not a human affair.

to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,

they only heard people say, "The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the good news of the faith he tried to destroy,"

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went. I laid before them the good news that I preach to the heathen, presenting it privately to the leaders, for fear my efforts might be or might have been futile.

But we did not submit to them for a moment, in order that the truth of the good news might remain yours.

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews??8 for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen??9 and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

The Scripture foresaw that God would accept the heathen as upright in consequence of their faith, and preached the good news in advance to Abraham in the words, "All the heathen will be blessed through you."

though you know that it was because of an illness that I preached the good news to you that first time;

You also have heard the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation, and believed in him, and through union with him you have been marked with the seal of the holy Spirit that was promised,

He came with the good news of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near;

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

and on your feet put the readiness the good news of peace brings.

and for me, that when I open my lips I may be given a message, so that I may boldly make known the secret of the good news,

over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.

And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

Now I want to assure you, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in furthering the preaching of the good news.

These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

And you at Philippi know as well as I do, that in the early days of the good news, after I left Macedonia, no church but yours went into partnership and opened an account with me.

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

We had just been through ill-treatment and insults at Philippi, as you remember, but, in the face of great opposition, we took courage by the help of our God, and told you God's good news.

God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts.

That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us.

You remember, brothers, how we toiled and labored. We worked night and day, when we preached the good news to you, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith

But now that Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good news of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you think of me and that you long to see me just as much as I long to see you,

in a blaze of fire, and takes vengeance on the godless who will not listen to the good news of our Lord Jesus.