Genesis 50:20

English Standard Version 2016

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.

Cross References

Romans 8:28

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

Psalm 119:71

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

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 by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

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 peacefully to him.

Psalm 56:5

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

Isaiah 10:7

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

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.

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 let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.

Genesis 50:19

But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?