'Well being' in the Bible
"I can't do that," Joseph replied, "but God is concerned about Pharaoh's well-being."
Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.
So be very diligent to love the Lord your God for your own well-being.
Take these ten pieces of cheese to the commander of the unit, check on the well-being of your brothers, and bring something back from them.
David left the supplies he had with him in the care of the supply keeper and ran to the battle line. When he arrived there, he asked his brothers about their well-being.
"The land you are entering to possess is a morally unclean land due to the moral uncleanness of the nations of the lands along with their abominations that has filled it from one end to the other with their impurities. So, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor marry their daughters to your sons, and under no circumstances are you to seek their well-being or their wealth, so that you may remain strong, enjoying the best things the land has to give, and so that you may establish an inheritance for your children forever.'
When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.
Every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to find out about Esther's well-being and what was happening to her.
He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)
One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!
I say to the Lord, "You are the Lord, my only source of well-being."
Depart from wickedness and do good, Aim at well-being, and pursue it.
Let those who want my vindicationshout for joy and be glad;let them continually say,“The Lord be exalted.He takes pleasure in His servant’s well-being.”
I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!
because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.
For the music director; written by the Korahites, a psalm. O Lord, you showed favor to your land; you restored the well-being of Jacob.
So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
Guarantee Your servant’s well-being;do not let the arrogant oppress me.
A song of ascents. When the Lord restored the well-being of Zion, we thought we were dreaming.
O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished.
for they will bring youmany days, a full life, and well-being.
Lo! for well-being, I had bitterness - bitterness, - But, thou, cleaving unto my soul, hast raised me from the pit of corruption, For thou hast cast, behind thy back all my sins.
The One forming light and creating darkness,Causing well-being and creating calamity;I am the Lord who does all these.
“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!Then your well-being would have been like a river,And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
But He was pierced through for our transgressions,He was crushed for our iniquities;The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,And by His scourging we are healed.
“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;And the well-being of your sons will be great.
the way of well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks, - Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well - being.
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of these people.
Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.
For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.
The officials then said to the king, “This man ought to die, because he is weakening the morale of the warriors who remain in this city and of all the people by speaking to them in this way. This man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but disaster.”
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
My covenant, was with him, Life and Well-being, so I gave them to him - I as One to be revered - and he did revere me, - and, before my Name, dismayed, was he.
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith [your personal trust and confidence in Me] has made you well. Go in peace (untroubled, undisturbed well-being).”
Then I immediately sent for thee; and thou hast done well being present. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things which have been commanded thee of the Lord.
The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you.
So, when we could not stand it any longer [Note: Paul's concern for the spiritual well-being of the Thessalonian Christians became unbearable], we [i.e., I, See verse 5] thought it best to be left behind, alone, at Athens [Note: Paul was willing to labor alone at Athens, so he could send his fellow-workers to minister to others. See Acts 17],
For I am suffering these things [See verse 8] for this reason [i.e., because of being a Gospel preacher]. Yet I am not ashamed because I know whom I have believed in [i.e., Jesus], and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him [i.e., Paul's spiritual well-being] until that day [i.e., the day of judgment].
Grace and peace [that special sense of spiritual well-being] be multiplied to you in the [true, intimate] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.