Bible Verses About the Goodness of God
Scripture on a good God — generous, kind, and working all things for those who love him.
The Bible insists that God is good — not merely powerful, but kind; not distant, but generous. His goodness is the ground under every prayer. These verses are for tasting and seeing it for yourself.
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
O taste and see that the LORD is good.
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
The LORD is good to all: his tender mercies over all his works.
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
All things work together for good to them that love God.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Every good gift... cometh down from the Father of lights.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD.
God is good when it is easy to see and good when it is not. Taste it in the small mercies of today, and trust it for the parts you cannot yet understand.
