Genesis 50:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Genesis 37:26

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we slay 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 heeded him.

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, “Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

Psalm 119:71

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

Psalm 56:5

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

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.

Isaiah 10:7

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

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 in turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

Romans 8:28

We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.