But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.
Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”
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.
All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Yet he does not mean so, Nor does his heart think so; But it is in his heart to destroy, And cut off not a few nations.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; With the remainder of wrath You shall gird Yourself.
So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Come and 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.
Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?