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21 Bible Verses About Being a Good Person

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Summary

  • Jesus answers “Good teacher” with “No one is good—except God alone” (Mark 10:18), and Romans 3:12 quotes Psalm 14:3: “there is no one who does good, not even one.”
  • Micah 6:8 answers a question about which sacrifices would please God by naming justice, mercy and a humble walk with God instead.
  • Ephesians 2:8-10 says salvation is not by works and that believers were created in Christ to do good works.
  • Jesus says all the Law and the Prophets hang on love for God and love for neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40), and Romans 13:10 calls love the fulfillment of the law.
  • James 1:27 defines the religion God accepts as care for orphans and widows, and James 2:1-4 condemns favoring the rich over the poor.

The Bible says what goodness looks like and also that no one is good by God’s measure. Micah 6:8 names justice, mercy and a humble walk with God, Jesus tells a man who calls him good that “No one is good—except God alone” (Mark 10:18), and Ephesians 2:10 says believers were “created in Christ Jesus to do good works.” Who is good, and what God asks Micah 6:8 “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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