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100 Bible Verses about Goodness

Psalm 23:6 ESV / 2,020 helpful votes

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 1,934 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Psalm 34:8 ESV / 1,932 helpful votes

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

Psalm 31:19 ESV / 1,877 helpful votes

Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

Psalm 27:13 ESV / 1,856 helpful votes

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!

Romans 8:28 ESV / 1,797 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

James 1:17 ESV / 1,695 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Nahum 1:7 ESV / 1,606 helpful votes

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 1,455 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 1,397 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 2:4 ESV / 1,396 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 1,316 helpful votes

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Mark 10:18 ESV / 1,286 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

Psalm 145:9 ESV / 1,200 helpful votes

The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

Psalm 119:68 ESV / 1,178 helpful votes

You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 1,020 helpful votes

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 961 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Romans 12:2 ESV / 953 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 939 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Exodus 33:19 ESV / 922 helpful votes

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Psalm 107:1 ESV / 899 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Romans 12:21 ESV / 887 helpful votes

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 870 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Titus 2:14 ESV / 866 helpful votes

Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 850 helpful votes

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 835 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Psalm 25:7 ESV / 805 helpful votes

Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 796 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 Peter 3:13 ESV / 786 helpful votes

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

Psalm 37:3 ESV / 782 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

Romans 15:14 ESV / 780 helpful votes

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

Matthew 5:15-16 ESV / 779 helpful votes

Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Psalm 65:4 ESV / 779 helpful votes

Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!

1 Chronicles 16:34 ESV / 775 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 774 helpful votes

The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 759 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 758 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 748 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Exodus 34:6 ESV / 745 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

1 Peter 2:3 ESV / 733 helpful votes

If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 727 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Ephesians 5:9 ESV / 713 helpful votes

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Romans 11:22 ESV / 712 helpful votes

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 706 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 69:16 ESV / 702 helpful votes

Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 697 helpful votes

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 672 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 668 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 647 helpful votes

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

Acts 10:38 ESV / 646 helpful votes

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 644 helpful votes

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

James 3:13 ESV / 643 helpful votes

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

Luke 18:19 ESV / 636 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

Matthew 7:11 ESV / 636 helpful votes

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Psalm 145:17 ESV / 634 helpful votes

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.

Luke 6:36 ESV / 631 helpful votes

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Psalm 25:6-7 ESV / 631 helpful votes

Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 629 helpful votes

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

Matthew 19:17 ESV / 621 helpful votes

And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

Proverbs 2:9 ESV / 615 helpful votes

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

Psalm 100:5 ESV / 611 helpful votes

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

2 Peter 1:5 ESV / 597 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,

1 John 1:9 ESV / 574 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 562 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 522 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 500 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 495 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Genesis 1:4 ESV / 490 helpful votes

And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 472 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 16:2 ESV / 462 helpful votes

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

Hosea 3:5 ESV / 459 helpful votes

Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 454 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

Psalm 33:5 ESV / 435 helpful votes

He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 426 helpful votes

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

1 John 1:5 ESV / 418 helpful votes

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 398 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 375 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 3:23 ESV / 372 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 366 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 365 helpful votes

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 349 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 342 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Psalm 52:1 ESV / 339 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

Titus 3:4 ESV / 338 helpful votes

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,

Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 326 helpful votes

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 313 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Proverbs 19:2 ESV / 290 helpful votes

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 286 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 283 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 283 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Psalm 107:1-43 ESV / 279 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in; hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. ...

Romans 5:8 ESV / 275 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 274 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 273 helpful votes

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, ...

Titus 3:1-15 ESV / 272 helpful votes

Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ...

Psalm 143:10 ESV / 265 helpful votes

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 256 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 248 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 243 helpful votes

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Hosea 10:12 ESV / 237 helpful votes

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

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