31 God was pleased with everything that he had made. Truly, it was all very good. Then there was another evening, that was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the sixth day’.

8 Yahweh is good and fair/just;

therefore he shows sinners ◄how they should conduct their lives/how to live as you want them to►.

28 But as for me, it is wonderful to be near to God

and to be protected by Yahweh,

and to proclaim to others all that he has done for me.

1 Yahweh, it is good for people to thank you

and to sing to praise you [MTY] who are greater than any other god.

2 It is good to proclaim every morning that you faithfully love us,

and each night to sing songs that declare that you always do what you have promised to do,

3 accompanied by musicians playing harps that have ten strings,

and by the sounds made by a lyre.

5 because Yahweh always does good things for us.

He faithfully loves us,

and ◄is faithful/is loyal to us forever/will never forsake us►.

1 It is very good and very pleasant

for God’s people to gather together harmoniously.

2 What I am teaching you is good,

so do not turn away from it.

23 People rejoice when they are able to reply well to what others have asked them;

truly, it is very delightful to be able to say the right thing at the right time.

13 My child/son, eat honey, because it is good for you;

the honey that drips from honeycombs tastes very sweet.

14 Similarly, being wise is good for your soul;

if you become wise,

you will be happy in the future,

and God will certainly do for you what you are confidently expecting him to do [LIT].

11 Being wise is better than inheriting valuable things;

being wise provides lasting benefits for every person on the earth [MTY].

25 Yahweh is good to all those who depend on him,

to those who seek his help.

26 So it is good for us to wait quietly

for Yahweh to save/rescue us.

8 No, because he has shown each of us what is good to do;

he has shown [RHQ] us what he requires each of us to do:

He wants us to do what is just/fair and to love and to be merciful to others,

and he wants us to live humbly while we fellowship with him, our God.

12 So we conclude that the laws that God gave to Moses are holy. What God commanded about not coveting, along with all the other things that he commanded, is also holy, and it is just and good.

2 Do not let anything non-Christian determine how you should act. Instead, let God change your way of life by making your way of thinking new, in order that you may know what he wants you to do. That is, you will know what is good, and you will know what pleases God, and you will know how to be all that he wants you to be.

16 Similarly, do not do something that you think is good if, as a result, your fellow believer would sin and then others would speak evil of you who say that you are Christians.

1 The first (OR, most important) thing that I urge you to tell your congregation is that Christians should continually ask God for what they need. They should also pray to God for all other people, and they should be thanking God. 2 Specifically, they should pray for rulers and for all other people who ◄are in important government positions/have authority►, in order that God will help them to rule. As God enables the rulers to rule well, we can live very peaceably as we conduct ours lives doing all that God and others consider to be right and proper. 3 It is good to pray like that, and it pleases God, who saves us, when we pray like that.

4 We can eat all kinds of food because God has created all food, and it is all good. We should not refuse to eat certain kinds of food if we thank God for it when we eat it. 5 It is acceptable to God because God long ago said that all things that he made are good, and because we pray that God will bless it.

17 The truth is that God, our heavenly Father [MTY], does only good [DOU] things for us, in order to help us become all that he intends us to be. He is not like all the things in the sky that he created to give light, because they change; that is, they do not shine the same all the time. But God never changes. He is always good.

50 Salt is useful to put on food, but you cannot [RHQ] make salt to taste salty again if it becomes flavorless [MET]. Similarly, you must remain useful to God, because no one can make you useful to God again if you become useless. You must also live peacefully with each other."