Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!
It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.
But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.
It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.
And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:
And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.
And the watchman said, It seems to me that the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and his news will be good.
He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.
I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?
Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.
And the king said in answer, Let Chimham go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you: and whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.
Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.
Then she said, In the old days, there was a saying, Let them put the question in Abel and in Dan, saying, Has what was ordered by men of good faith in Israel ever come to an end?
As for God, his way is all good: the word of the Lord is tested; he is a safe cover for all those who put their faith in him.
May the Lord be good and true to you: and I myself will see that your kind act is rewarded, because you have done this thing.
And Abner said the same things to Benjamin: and he went to David in Hebron to make clear to him what seemed good to Israel and to all the people of Benjamin.
When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:
And now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are true and you have said you will give your servant this good thing;
And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.
For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;
To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.
But has now been made clear by the revelation of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who put an end to death and made life unending come to light through the good news,
That good thing which was given to you keep safe, through the Holy Spirit which is in us.
Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;
If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.
Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:
So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,
But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;
The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--
About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.
But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks.
For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.
And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.
And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,
Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
And having made a number of disciples through the preaching of the good news in that town, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,
And went on preaching the good news there.
Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:
It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;
And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith.
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