But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save a great many people alive.
And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we should kill our brother and hide his blood?
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him. For he is our brother, and our flesh. And his brothers listened.
And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
And Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God?
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, so that I might learn Your Precepts.
All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; the wrath that is left, You shall bind up.
Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.
this One given to you by the before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by lawless hands, crucifying Him, you put Him to death;
Having raised up His son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you away from his iniquities.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.