Genesis 50:20 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁰ As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are 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 slay our brother and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37:27

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers heeded him.

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, “Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

Psalm 56:5

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

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.

Isaiah 10:7

But he does not so intend, and his mind does not so think; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;

Acts 2:23

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Acts 3:26

God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

Romans 8:28

We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.