Goodness of God, The

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• Psalms 25:8 OT

  Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

• Nahum 1:7 OT

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

• Matthew 19:17 NT

  He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

• Nehemiah 9:35 OT

  For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.

• Zechariah 9:17 OT

  For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

• Psalms 104:24 OT

  Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

• Romans 2:4 NT

  Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

• Exodus 34:6 OT

  Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

• Psalms 33:5 OT

  He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

• Psalms 65:4 OT

  Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

• Jeremiah 31:12 OT

  They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow…

• Jeremiah 31:14 OT

  I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

• Psalms 23:6 OT

  Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

• Psalms 52:1 OT

  Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

• Psalms 145:9 OT

  Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

• Matthew 5:45 NT

  that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

• Psalms 31:19 OT

  Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

• Lamentations 3:25 OT

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

• Psalms 119:68 OT

  You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.

• Acts 14:17 NT

  Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

• Psalms 68:10 OT

  Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

• 2 Chronicles 30:18 OT

  For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh…

• Psalms 86:5 OT

  For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

• Ezra 8:18 OT

  According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;