Genesis 50:20

Modern English Version

But as for you, you intended to harm me, but God intended it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many lives.

Cross References

Genesis 37:26

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

Genesis 37:27

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let us not lay our hand on him, for he is our brother and our own flesh.” So 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

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

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

Psalm 56:5

All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; with the remainder of wrath You will gird Yourself.

Isaiah 10:7

However he does not so intend, nor does he plan so in his heart; but his purpose is to destroy and to cut off many nations.

Acts 2:23

You have taken Him, who was handed over to you by the ordained counsel and foreknowledge of God, and by lawless hands have crucified and killed Him,

Acts 3:26

God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your iniquities.”

Romans 8:28

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