'Good' in the Bible

For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,

Therefore let us [with privilege] approach the throne of grace [that is, the throne of God’s gracious favor] with confidence and without fear, so that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find [His amazing] grace to help in time of need [an appropriate blessing, coming just at the right moment].

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,

And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.

To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.