'Good news' in the Bible
For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.
For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.
If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.
And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news.
For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.
What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.
And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.
And, brothers, I make known to you the good-news that I preached to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stand,