good/kind
Chrestos describes benevolent treatment and favorable quality, including God’s kindness, mutual conduct, an easy yoke, and good morals.
The term most often describes benevolent or favorable conduct in clauses about God’s treatment of people and believers’ treatment of one another. It also characterizes a yoke and old wine as favorable, and identifies the moral quality that bad company corrupts.
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Benevolent conduct toward people · dominant
In Luke 6:35, the nominative singular masculine form describes the Most High in the clause that he is kind to the ungrateful and evil. In Ephesians 4:32, the nominative plural masculine form stands in the instruction to be good to one another alongside compassion and forgiveness; Romans 2:4 and 1 Peter 2:3 likewise place the singular forms in statements about God’s favorable treatment.
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Favorable or easy in comparison · common
In Matthew 11:30, the nominative singular masculine form describes the yoke in the clause paired with a light burden; the APB renders it “easy.” In Luke 5:39, the same morphology describes old wine as the reason someone who has drunk it does not desire new wine; the APB renders the evaluation “good.”
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Positive moral quality · rare
In 1 Corinthians 15:33, the accusative plural neuter form qualifies morals in the warning that bad company corrupts them. The APB renders the clause “bad company corrupts good morals.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “kind” for God in Luke 6:35, “good” for conduct, old wine, morals, and the Lord, “easy” for the yoke, and “kindness” in Romans 2:4. Because the APB is a translation of whole verses, these renderings show the clauses’ presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.