'Good' in the Bible

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

So in fact children were fathered by one man -- and this one as good as dead -- like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.