'What is Good' in the Bible
“For My people are fools;they do not know Me.They are foolish children,without understanding.They are skilled in doing what is evil,but they do not know how to do what is good.”
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good.
This is what the Lord says:Stand by the roadways and look.Ask about the ancient paths:Which is the way to what is good?Then take itand find rest for yourselves.But they protested, “We won’t!”
Can the Cushite change his skin,or a leopard his spots?If so, you might be able to do what is good,you who are instructed in evil.
I will take delight in them to do what is good for them, and with all My heart and mind I will faithfully plant them in this land.
Related Phrases
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- Bear Good Fruit (5 instances in 11 translations)
- Bears Good Fruit (2 instances in 10 translations)
- Bring Good News (7 instances in 12 translations)