The best Bible verses for good (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for good (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Good work will get you good pay from the Master, regardless of whether you are slave or free."Ephesians 6:8
"Good work will get you good pay from the Master, regardless of whether you are slave or free."Ephesians 6:8
"You were running superbly! Who cut in on you, deflecting you from the true course of obedience?"Galatians 5:7
"That's how it happened that from one man's dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions."Hebrews 11:12
"The godmakers in the workshops go into overtime production, crafting new models of no-gods, Urging one another on—'Good job!' 'Great design!'— pounding in nails at the base so that the things won't tip over."Isaiah 41:7
"or, failing that, tell us what will happen in the future. Can't do that? How about doing something—anything! Good or bad—whatever. Can you hurt us or help us? Do we need to be afraid?'"Isaiah 41:23
"Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle."James 1:17
""Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage."Matthew 5:13
"Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven."Matthew 5:16
"for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty."Matthew 5:45
""Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light."Matthew 6:22
"I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles."Philippians 4:14
"Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God's hand for that person."Proverbs 3:27
"Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I'm back home in the house of God for the rest of my life."Psalms 23:6
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for good (MSG) are Ephesians 6:8, Galatians 5:7, Hebrews 11:12. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to good (MSG) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for good (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.