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Goodness Of God You are good and do good; teach me

your statutes.
Group 1
Philippians 1:6 ESV  
Psalm 107:1 ESV
And I am sure of this, that he who
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is began a good work in you will bring it
good, for his steadfast love endures to completion at the day of Jesus
forever! Christ.

John 3:15-18 ESV Group 2

Psalm 31:19 ESV 
That whoever believes in him may
have eternal life. “For God so loved Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
the world, that he gave his only Son, which you have stored up for those
that whoever believes in him should who fear you and worked for those
not perish but have eternal life. For who take refuge in you, in the sight of
God did not send his Son into the the children of mankind!
world to condemn the world, but in
order that the world might be saved Psalm 23:1-6 ES
through him. Whoever believes in him
is not condemned, but whoever does A Psalm of David. The Lord is my
not believe is condemned already, shepherd; I shall not want. He makes
because he has not believed in the me lie down in green pastures. He
name of the only Son of God. leads me beside still waters. He
restores my soul. He leads me in
Psalm 34:8 ESV
paths of righteousness for his name's
sake. Even though I walk through the
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is valley of the shadow of death, I will
good! Blessed is the man who takes fear no evil, for you are with me; your
refuge in him! rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Nahum 1:7 ESV You prepare a table before me in the
presence of my enemies; you anoint
my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the
day of trouble; he knows those who
take refuge in him. Romans 8:28  

Psalm 119:68 ESV  And we know that for those who love

God all things work together for good,
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for those who are called according to should wait quietly for the salvation of
his purpose. the Lord.

Lamentations 3:25   Psalm 145:8-10  

The Lord is good to those who wait for The Lord is gracious and merciful,
him, to the soul who seeks him. slow to anger and abounding in
steadfast love. The Lord is good to all,
Genesis 2:7  and his mercy is over all that he has
made. All your works shall give thanks
Then the Lord God formed the man of to you, O Lord, and all your saints
dust from the ground and breathed shall bless you!
into his nostrils the breath of life, and
the man became a living creature. Genesis 1:27-31 

James 1:17   So God created man in his own

image, in the image of God he created
Every good gift and every perfect gift him; male and female he created
is from above, coming down from the them. And God blessed them. And
Father of lights with whom there is no God said to them, “Be fruitful and
variation or shadow due to change. multiply and fill the earth and subdue it
and have dominion over the fish of the
Romans 5:8  sea and over the birds of the heavens
and over every living thing that moves
But God shows his love for us in that on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I
while we were still sinners, Christ died have given you every plant yielding
for us. seed that is on the face of all the
earth, and every tree with seed in its
Group 3 fruit. You shall have them for food.
And to every beast of the earth and to
Lamentations 3:22-26   every bird of the heavens and to
everything that creeps on the earth,
The steadfast love of the Lord never everything that has the breath of life, I
ceases; his mercies never come to an have given every green plant for
end; they are new every morning; food.” And it was so. And God saw
great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is everything that he had made, and
my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I behold, it was very good. And there
will hope in him.” The Lord is good to was evening and there was morning,
those who wait for him, to the soul the sixth day.
who seeks him. It is good that one
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Galatians 5:22-23 ESV Christ Jesus, who became to us

wisdom from God, righteousness and
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, sanctification and redemption, ...
peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; Jeremiah 33:10-14 ES
against such things there is no law.
“Thus says the Lord: In this place of
Revelation 21:2-4 ESV which you say, ‘It is a waste without
man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah
and the streets of Jerusalem that are
And I saw the holy city, new
desolate, without man or inhabitant or
Jerusalem, coming down out of
beast, there shall be heard again the
heaven from God, prepared as a bride
voice of mirth and the voice of
adorned for her husband. And I heard
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
a loud voice from the throne saying,
and the voice of the bride, the voices
“Behold, the dwelling place of God is
of those who sing, as they bring thank
with man. He will dwell with them, and
offerings to the house of the Lord:
they will be his people, and God
“‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for
himself will be with them as their God.
the Lord is good, for his steadfast love
He will wipe away every tear from
endures forever!’ For I will restore the
their eyes, and death shall be no
fortunes of the land as at first, says
more, neither shall there be mourning,
the Lord. “Thus says the Lord of
nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the
hosts: In this place that is waste,
former things have passed away.”
without man or beast, and in all of its
cities, there shall again be habitations
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ESV 
of shepherds resting their flocks. In
the cities of the hill country, in the
For consider your calling, brothers: not cities of the Shephelah, and in the
many of you were wise according to cities of the Negeb, in the land of
worldly standards, not many were Benjamin, the places about
powerful, not many were of noble Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
birth. But God chose what is foolish in flocks shall again pass under the
the world to shame the wise; God hands of the one who counts them,
chose what is weak in the world to says the Lord. “Behold, the days are
shame the strong; God chose what is coming, declares the Lord, when I will
low and despised in the world, even fulfill the promise I made to the house
things that are not, to bring to nothing of Israel and the house of Judah.
things that are, so that no human
being might boast in the presence of
God. And because of him you are in
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Group 4 hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not,

I am the one who helps you.” ...
Isaiah 61:7-9 ESV 
Psalm 119:65-72 ESV  
Instead of your shame there shall be a
double portion; instead of dishonor You have dealt well with your servant,
they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore O Lord, according to your word. Teach
in their land they shall possess a me good judgment and knowledge, for
double portion; they shall have I believe in your commandments.
everlasting joy. For I the Lord love Before I was afflicted I went astray,
justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will but now I keep your word. You are
faithfully give them their recompense, good and do good; teach me your
and I will make an everlasting statutes. The insolent smear me with
covenant with them. Their offspring lies, but with my whole heart I keep
shall be known among the nations, your precepts; ...
and their descendants in the midst of Psalm 84:11 ESV / 9 A 
the peoples; all who see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are an
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
offspring the Lord has blessed.
the Lord bestows favor and honor. No
Isaiah 41:9-14 ESV / 9 A  good thing does he withhold from
those who walk uprightly.
You whom I took from the ends of the Psalm 65:9-13 ESV / 9 A 
earth, and called from its farthest
corners, saying to you, “You are my
You visit the earth and water it; you
servant, I have chosen you and not
greatly enrich it; the river of God is full
cast you off”; fear not, for I am with
of water; you provide their grain, for so
you; be not dismayed, for I am your
you have prepared it. You water its
God; I will strengthen you, I will help
furrows abundantly, settling its ridges,
you, I will uphold you with my
softening it with showers, and blessing
righteous right hand. Behold, all who
its growth. You crown the year with
are incensed against you shall be put
your bounty; your wagon tracks
to shame and confounded; those who
overflow with abundance. The
strive against you shall be as nothing
pastures of the wilderness overflow,
and shall perish. You shall seek those
the hills gird themselves with joy, the
who contend with you, but you shall
meadows clothe themselves with
not find them; those who war against
flocks, the valleys deck themselves
you shall be as nothing at all. For I,
with grain, they shout and sing
the Lord your God, hold your right
together for joy.
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dismayed, for the Lord your God is

with you wherever you go.”
Psalm 25:8-11 ESV / 9 A 
Group 5
Good and upright is the Lord; Deuteronomy 26:7-13 ESV / 9 A 
therefore he instructs sinners in the
way. He leads the humble in what is Then we cried to the Lord, the God of
right, and teaches the humble his way. our fathers, and the Lord heard our
All the paths of the Lord are steadfast voice and saw our affliction, our toil,
love and faithfulness, for those who and our oppression. And
keep his covenant and his the Lord brought us out of Egypt with
testimonies. For your name's sake, a mighty hand and an outstretched
O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great. arm, with great deeds of terror, with
Joshua 1:5-9 ESV / 9 A  signs and wonders. And he brought us
into this place and gave us this land, a
land flowing with milk and honey. And
No man shall be able to stand before
behold, now I bring the first of the fruit
you all the days of your life. Just as I
of the ground, which you, O Lord,
was with Moses, so I will be with you. I
have given me.’ And you shall set it
will not leave you or forsake you. Be
down before the Lord your God and
strong and courageous, for you shall
worship before the Lord your God.
cause this people to inherit the land
And you shall rejoice in all the good
that I swore to their fathers to give
that the Lord your God has given to
them. Only be strong and very
you and to your house, you, and the
courageous, being careful to do
Levite, and the sojourner who is
according to all the law that Moses my
among you. ...
servant commanded you. Do not turn
from it to the right hand or to the left, Exodus 33:18-22 ESV / 9 A 
that you may have good success
wherever you go. This Book of the Moses said, “Please show me your
Law shall not depart from your mouth, glory.” And he said, “I will make all my
but you shall meditate on it day and goodness pass before you and will
night, so that you may be careful to do proclaim before you my name
according to all that is written in it. For ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to
then you will make your way whom I will be gracious, and will show
prosperous, and then you will have mercy on whom I will show mercy.
good success. Have I not commanded But,” he said, “you cannot see my
you? Be strong and courageous. Do face, for man shall not see me and
not be frightened, and do not be live.” And the Lord said, “Behold, there
is a place by me where you shall
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stand on the rock, and while my glory Since, therefore, we have now been
passes by I will put you in a cleft of the justified by his blood, much more shall
rock, and I will cover you with my we be saved by him from the wrath of
hand until I have passed by. God. For if while we were enemies we
were reconciled to God by the death
James 2:23-24 ESV / 8 A  of his Son, much more, now that we
are reconciled, shall we be saved by
And the Scripture was fulfilled that his life. More than that, we also rejoice
says, “Abraham believed God, and it in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
was counted to him as through whom we have now received
righteousness”—and he was called a reconciliation.
friend of God. You see that a person is
justified by works and not by faith Group 6
alone.
Romans 2:4 ESV / 8 A 
Philippians 4:19-20 ESV / 8 A 
Or do you presume on the riches of
And my God will supply every need of his kindness and forbearance and
yours according to his riches in glory patience, not knowing that God's
in Christ Jesus. To our God and kindness is meant to lead you to
Father be glory forever and ever. repentance?
Amen.
John 3:18 ESV / 8 A 
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 8 A 
Whoever believes in him is not
For by grace you have been saved condemned, but whoever does not
through faith. And this is not your own believe is condemned already,
doing; it is the gift of God, not a result because he has not believed in the
of works, so that no one may boast. name of the only Son of God.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ESV / 8 A  Luke 12:29-32 ESV / 8 A 

Therefore, we are ambassadors for And do not seek what you are to eat
Christ, God making his appeal through and what you are to drink, nor be
us. We implore you on behalf of worried. For all the nations of the
Christ, be reconciled to God. For our world seek after these things, and
sake he made him to be sin who knew your Father knows that you need
no sin, so that in him we might them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and
become the righteousness of God. these things will be added to you.
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your
Romans 5:9-11 ESV / 8 A 
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Father's good pleasure to give you the love and mercy, who satisfies you with
kingdom. good so that your youth is renewed
like the eagle's. ...
Matthew 5:44-45 ESV / 8 A 
Psalm 23:6 ESV / 8 A 
But I say to you, Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you, Surely goodness and mercy shall
so that you may be sons of your follow me all the days of my life, and I
Father who is in heaven. For he shall dwell in the house of
makes his sun rise on the evil and on the Lord forever.
the good, and sends rain on the just
and on the unjust. Psalm 16:2 ESV / 8 A 

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 8 A  I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I

have no good apart from you.”
The Lord your God is in your midst, a
mighty one who will save; he will Esther 9:2-5 ESV / 8 A 
rejoice over you with gladness; he will
quiet you by his love; he will exult over The Jews gathered in their cities
you with loud singing. throughout all the provinces of King
Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who
Psalm 119:16-18 ESV / 8 A  sought their harm. And no one could
stand against them, for the fear of
I will delight in your statutes; I will not them had fallen on all peoples. All the
forget your word. Deal bountifully with officials of the provinces and the
your servant, that I may live and keep satraps and the governors and the
your word. Open my eyes, that I may royal agents also helped the Jews, for
behold wondrous things out of your the fear of Mordecai had fallen on
law. them. For Mordecai was great in the
king's house, and his fame spread
Group 7 throughout all the provinces, for the
man Mordecai grew more and more
Psalm 103:1-14 ESV / 8 A 
powerful. The Jews struck all their
enemies with the sword, killing and
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, destroying them, and did as they
and all that is within me, bless his holy pleased to those who hated them.
name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all his benefits, who forgives Judges 7:10-21 ESV / 8 A 
all your iniquity, who heals all your
diseases, who redeems your life from But if you are afraid to go down, go
the pit, who crowns you with steadfast down to the camp with Purah your
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servant. And you shall hear what they God is not man, that he should lie, or
say, and afterward your hands shall a son of man, that he should change
be strengthened to go down against his mind. Has he said, and will he not
the camp.” Then he went down with do it? Or has he spoken, and will he
Purah his servant to the outposts of not fulfill it?
the armed men who were in the camp.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites
and all the people of the East lay
Group 8
along the valley like locusts in
abundance, and their camels were Exodus 34:1-8 ESV / 8 A 
without number, as the sand that is on
the seashore in abundance. When The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for
Gideon came, behold, a man was yourself two tablets of stone like the
telling a dream to his comrade. And he first, and I will write on the tablets the
said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and words that were on the first tablets,
behold, a cake of barley bread which you broke. Be ready by the
tumbled into the camp of Midian and morning, and come up in the morning
came to the tent and struck it so that it to Mount Sinai, and present yourself
fell and turned it upside down, so that there to me on the top of the
the tent lay flat.” And his comrade mountain. No one shall come up with
answered, “This is no other than the you, and let no one be seen
sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a throughout all the mountain. Let no
man of Israel; God has given into his flocks or herds graze opposite that
hand Midian and all the camp.” ... mountain.” So Moses cut two tablets
Deuteronomy 31:7-8 ESV / 8 A  of stone like the first. And he rose
early in the morning and went up on
Mount Sinai, as the Lord had
Then Moses summoned Joshua and
commanded him, and took in his hand
said to him in the sight of all Israel,
two tablets of stone.
“Be strong and courageous, for you
The Lord descended in the cloud and
shall go with this people into the land
stood with him there, and proclaimed
that the Lord has sworn to their
the name of the Lord. ...
fathers to give them, and you shall put
them in possession of it. It is Genesis 50:20 ESV / 8 A 
the Lord who goes before you. He will
be with you; he will not leave you or As for you, you meant evil against me,
forsake you. Do not fear or be but God meant it for good, to bring it
dismayed.” about that many people should be
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 8 A  kept alive, as they are today.
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Genesis 2:21-23 ESV / 8 A  and no moth destroys. For where your

treasure is, there will your heart be
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep also.
to fall upon the man, and while he
slept took one of his ribs and closed Group 9
up its place with flesh. And the rib that
the Lord God had taken from the man Luke 6:35 ESV / 7 A 
he made into a woman and brought
her to the man. Then the man said, But love your enemies, and do good,
“This at last is bone of my bones and and lend, expecting nothing in return,
flesh of my flesh; she shall be called and your reward will be great, and you
Woman, because she was taken out will be sons of the Most High, for he is
of Man.” kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 8 A  Zephaniah 3:12-13 ESV / 7 A 

And God saw everything that he had But I will leave in your midst a people
made, and behold, it was very good. humble and lowly. They shall seek
And there was evening and there was refuge in the name of the Lord, those
morning, the sixth day. who are left in Israel; they shall do no
injustice and speak no lies, nor shall
Genesis 1:4 ESV / 8 A  there be found in their mouth a
deceitful tongue. For they shall graze
And God saw that the light was good. and lie down, and none shall make
And God separated the light from the them afraid.”
darkness.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 7 A 
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 7 A 
He has told you, O man, what is good;
For by grace you have been saved and what does the Lord require of you
through faith. And this is not your own but to do justice, and to love kindness,
doing; it is the gift of God, and to walk humbly with your God?

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 7 A  Ezekiel 34:25-31 ESV / 7 A 

Sell your possessions, and give to the “I will make with them a covenant of
needy. Provide yourselves with peace and banish wild beasts from the
moneybags that do not grow old, with land, so that they may dwell securely
a treasure in the heavens that does in the wilderness and sleep in the
not fail, where no thief approaches woods. And I will make them and the
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places all around my hill a blessing, Group 10

and I will send down the showers in
their season; they shall be showers of Isaiah 53:4-8 ESV / 7 A 
blessing. And the trees of the field
shall yield their fruit, and the earth Surely he has borne our griefs and
shall yield its increase, and they shall carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed
be secure in their land. And they shall him stricken, smitten by God, and
know that I am the Lord, when I break afflicted. But he was wounded for our
the bars of their yoke, and deliver transgressions; he was crushed for
them from the hand of those who our iniquities; upon him was the
enslaved them. They shall no more be chastisement that brought us peace,
a prey to the nations, nor shall the and with his stripes we are healed. All
beasts of the land devour them. They we like sheep have gone astray; we
shall dwell securely, and none shall have turned—every one—to his own
make them afraid. And I will provide way; and the Lord has laid on him the
for them renowned plantations so that iniquity of us all. He was oppressed,
they shall no more be consumed with and he was afflicted, yet he opened
hunger in the land, and no longer not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to
suffer the reproach of the nations. ... the slaughter, and like a sheep that
before its shearers is silent, so he
Isaiah 55:8-11 ESV / 7 A 
opened not his mouth. By oppression
and judgment he was taken away; and
For my thoughts are not your as for his generation, who considered
thoughts, neither are your ways my that he was cut off out of the land of
ways, declares the Lord. For as the the living, stricken for the
heavens are higher than the earth, so transgression of my people?
are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 40:27-31 ESV / 7 A 
“For as the rain and the snow come
down from heaven and do not return Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak,
there but water the earth, making it O Israel, “My way is hidden from
bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the Lord, and my right is disregarded
the sower and bread to the eater, so by my God”? Have you not known?
shall my word be that goes out from Have you not heard? The Lord is the
my mouth; it shall not return to me everlasting God, the Creator of the
empty, but it shall accomplish that ends of the earth. He does not faint or
which I purpose, and shall succeed in grow weary; his understanding is
the thing for which I sent it. unsearchable. He gives power to the
faint, and to him who has no might he
increases strength. Even youths shall
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faint and be weary, and young men knowledge, for I believe in your
shall fall exhausted; but they who wait commandments.
for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like Psalm 115:1-13 ESV / 7 A 
eagles; they shall run and not be
weary; they shall walk and not faint. Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to
your name give glory, for the sake of
Isaiah 9:6-7 ESV / 7 A  your steadfast love and your
faithfulness! Why should the nations
For to us a child is born, to us a son is say, “Where is their God?” Our God is
given; and the government shall be in the heavens; he does all that he
upon his shoulder, and his name shall pleases. Their idols are silver and
be called Wonderful Counselor, gold, the work of human hands. They
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, have mouths, but do not speak; eyes,
Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his but do not see. ...
government and of peace there will be
no end, on the throne of David and
over his kingdom, to establish it and to
uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from this time forth and
forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of
hosts will do this.

Proverbs 22:11-12 ESV / 7 A 

He who loves purity of heart, and

whose speech is gracious, will have
the king as his friend. The eyes of
the Lord keep watch over knowledge,
but he overthrows the words of the
traitor.

Psalm 119:64-66 ESV / 7 A 

The earth, O Lord, is full of your

steadfast love; teach me your
statutes! You have dealt well with your
servant, O Lord, according to your
word. Teach me good judgment and