Genesis 50:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ As for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Common English Bible

²⁰ You planned something bad for me, but God produced something good from it, in order to save the lives of many people, just as he’s doing today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ You devised evil against me. But God turned it into good, so that he might exalt me, just as you presently discern, and so that he might bring about the salvation of many peoples.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Genesis 50:20 Cross References

Genesis 37:26

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37:27

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers agreed.

Genesis 37:4

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 50:19

But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God?

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I was humbled, so that I might learn your statutes.

Psalm 56:5

All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalm 76:10

Human wrath serves only to praise you, when you bind the last bit of your wrath around you.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few.

Acts 2:23

this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.

Acts 3:26

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.