As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

Then you will remember your evil behavior ¹  and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.

It seemed like a good idea to Darius ¹  to appoint over the kingdom 120 satraps ²  who would be in charge of the entire kingdom.

Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the Lord, the God who commands armies, just might be with you, as you claim he is.

Indeed, the residents of Maroth ¹  hope for something good to happen, ²  though the Lord has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem. ³ 

yet you ¹  hate what is good, ²  and love what is evil. ³  You flay my people’s skin ⁴  and rip the flesh from their bones. ⁵ 

The Lord is good ¹  – indeed, ²  he is a fortress ³  in time of distress, ⁴  and he protects ⁵  those who seek refuge ⁶  in him.

The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead ¹  – he who starts ²  a town by unjust deeds.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

Then Jesus went throughout all the towns ¹  and villages, teaching in their synagogues, ²  preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness. ³ 

The blind see, the ¹  lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

He presented them with another parable: ¹  “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people ¹  of the kingdom. The weeds are the people ²  of the evil one,

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

When ¹  Jesus learned of this, he said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She ²  has done a good service for me.

Then ¹  he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

But ¹  other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”