'Good' in the Bible

Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.

For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.

It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?

If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.

If I go on preaching the Good News, that is nothing for me to boast of; for the necessity is imposed upon me; and alas for me, if I fail to preach it!

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.

Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.

But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather than good results.

But to each of us a manifestation of the Spirit has been granted for the common good.

He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself, but he who prophesies does good to the Church.

But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,

Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

As for our brother Apollos, I have repeatedly urged him to accompany the brethren who are coming to you: but he is quite resolved not to do so at present. He will come, however, when he has a good opportunity.