Genesis 50:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.

Cross References

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 not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And 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

But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God?

Psalm 119:71

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

Psalm 56:5

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

Psalm 76:10

Human wrath serves only to praise you, when you bind the last bit of your wrath around you.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few.

Acts 2:23

this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.

Acts 3:26

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

Romans 8:28

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