What good will come of it?

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a. What bad will your confession do?
b. What good will your confession do?
c. What bad will come of your confession?
d. What good will come of your confession?

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Sorry.

I wrote them myself. The idea is: What good/bad consequence will your confession have?
 
"What good will ... do?" is grammatically correct and commonly used. We don't use "What bad ...". Not every phrase has an exact opposite.
 
You could replace “bad” with “harm”.

However, we typically use the set phrase “What harm can come from X?” as a kind of rhetorical expression to mean something like “It can’t hurt to try.”

I suppose you could use it in a literal sense though, in the right context.
 

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