Genesis 50:20

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 37:26

Therefore, Judah said to his brothers: "What will it profit us, if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37:27

It is better that he be sold to the Ishmaelites, and then our hands will not be defiled. For he is our brother and our flesh." His brothers agreed to his words.

Genesis 37:4

Then his brothers, seeing that he was loved by his father more than all his other sons, hated him, and they were not able to say anything peacefully to him.

Genesis 50:19

And he answered them: "Do not be afraid. Are we able to resist the will of God?

Psalm 56:5

And he has rescued my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men: their teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue is a sharp sword.

Psalm 76:10

And would God ever forget to be merciful? Or, would he, in his wrath, restrict his mercies?

Isaiah 10:7

But he will not consider it to be so, and his heart will not suppose it to be this way. Instead, his heart will be set to crush and to exterminate more than a few nations.

Acts 2:23

This man, under the definitive plan and foreknowledge of God, was delivered by the hands of the unjust, afflicted, and put to death.

Acts 3:26

God raised up his Son and sent him first to you, to bless you, so that each one may turn himself away from his wickedness."

Romans 8:28

And we know that, for those who love God, all things work together unto good, for those who, in accordance with his purpose, are called to be saints.