Do Good

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,

For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.

How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.