The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good. (Psalm 14:1)

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. (Psalm 53:1)

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does The LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” (Matthew 19:17)

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God. (Mark 10:18) 

Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God. (Luke 18:19)

2 O LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save? 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted. (Habakkuk 1:2–4)

12 Aren’t you from everlasting, The LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. The LORD, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them? 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good. 17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy? (Habakkuk 1:12–17)

2 The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it. ³ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay. (Habakkuk 2:2–3)

¹⁷For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls, ¹⁸yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! ¹⁹  O God, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments. (Habakkuk 3:17–19)

⁶Seek The LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. ⁷Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon. ⁸“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says The LORD. ⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:6–9)

You have wearied The LORD with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in The LORD’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’ (Malachi 2:17)

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. (Job 2:10)

19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. (Genesis 50:19–21)

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

when you disobey the covenant of The LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the LORD’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you. (Joshua 23:16)

If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good. (Joshua 24:20)

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. (Romans 11:22)

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. (Titus 1:16)

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (Mark 1:1)

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom, (Mark 1:14)

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.” (Mark 1:15)

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news." (Luke 1:19)

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:14)

But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent. (Luke 4:43)

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve, (Luke 8:1)

5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? 6 But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” (Matthew 12:5–8)

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.  (Luke 16:16)

25 He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?” 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:25–27)

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all— (Acts 10:36)

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. (Acts 10:38)

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe. (Acts 15:7)

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. (Romans 1:16)

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, (Romans 14:24)

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. (1 Corinthians 1:21)

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. (2 Corinthians 4:4) *

3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony at the proper time, 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (1 Timothy 2:3–7)

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good? (Numbers 23:19)

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. (Psalm 103:8)

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:8)

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually. (Psalm 52:1)

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him. (Ezra 7:9)

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.” (Ezra 8:22)

I told them about the hand of my God which was good on me, and also about the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work. (Nehemiah 2:18)

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (Hosea 6:6)

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (Psalm 84:10)

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2)

The LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear The LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. (Deuteronomy 6:24)

Now, The LORD, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant. (1 Chronicles 17:26)

They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which The LORD our God gives to us.” (Deuteronomy 1:25)

For The LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; (Deuteronomy 8:7)

You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless The LORD your God for the good land which he has given you. (Deuteronomy 8:10)

You shall rejoice in all the good which The LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you. (Deuteronomy 26:11)

For The LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. (Psalm 84:11)

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. (Ecclesiastes 5:18)

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow. (James 1:17)

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord my God refuge, that I may tell of all your works. (Psalm 73:28)

8 The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. 9 The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works. (Psalm 145:8–9)

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.....4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness....10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good. ....12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. .....17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good..... 21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.....25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. ..... 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. (excerpts from Genesis 1)

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of the same nature as you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; (Acts 14:15)

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. (1 Timothy 4:4)

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (Genesis 2:18)

10 It shall be, when The LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build, 11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full; 12 then beware lest you forget The LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. (Deuteronomy 6:10–12)

¹Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. (Galatians 5:1)

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. (Psalm 73:1)

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor. (Psalm 68:10)

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2:4)

Now therefore arise, The LORD God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, The LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. (2 Chronicles 6:41)

The LORD, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)

The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers. (Deuteronomy 30:5)

The LORD your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for The LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers, (Deuteronomy 30:9)

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may The LORD do what seems good to him. (2 Samuel 10:12)

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13)

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, (Colossians 1:10)

To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, (2 Thessalonians 1:11)

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:17)

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men; (Titus 3:8)

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Hebrews 13:16)

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:12)

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness. (Psalm 143:10)

For the sake of the house of The LORD our God, I will seek your good. (Psalm 122:9)

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God. (3 John 11)