Jesus Christ : The Good

And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you The good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Also regard not your stuff; for The good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with The good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

I pray thee, let me go over, and see The good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess The good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for The good land which he hath given thee.

And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off The good land which the LORD giveth you.

And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for The good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all The good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off The good land which he hath given unto you.

• Samuel

Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you The good and the right way:

And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all The good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat The good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

• Walking

Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them The good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all The good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them The good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with The good.

For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught The good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

• Ezra

For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to The good hand of his God upon him.

And by The good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat The good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to The good hand of my God upon me.

Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and The good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

That I may see The good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see The good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

The evil bow before The good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and The good.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy The good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy The good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to The good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is The good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat The good of the land:

• Honey
• Food

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose The good.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose The good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

• Walking
• Way

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is The good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of The good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; The good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

• Prophets

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold The good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for The good of them, and of their children after them:

For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all The good that I have promised them.

And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all The good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

• Foretold

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up The good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Hate the evil, and love The good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Who hate The good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on The good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

A good man out of The good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

But he that received seed into The good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

He answered and said unto them, He that soweth The good seed is the Son of man;

• Tares

The field is the world; The good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

• Righteous

Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered The good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

A good man out of The good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

• Sincere
• Heart

But that on The good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

• Wine
• Food

And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept The good wine until now.

• Shepherd

I am The good shepherd: The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

• Wisdom

I am The good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

If we this day be examined of The good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

For The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to The good pleasure of his will,

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all The good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

• Works

Likewise also The good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

• War

Fight The good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

And have tasted The good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to The good and gentle, but also to the froward.