And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,
As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,
To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:
And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;
Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.
(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;
And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,
In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.
And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;
And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.
Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.
And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.
So now send a letter about the Jews, writing whatever seems good to you, in the king's name, and stamping it with the king's ring: for a writing signed in the king's name and stamped with the king's ring may not be changed.
So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.
As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.
And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.
And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.
And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians.
And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.
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