50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good

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

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.

He will repay my adversaries for their evil.
Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them.

Come and see the wonders of God;
His acts for humanity are awe-inspiring.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

For God will bring every act to judgment, including every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—
even the wicked for the day of disaster.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who substitute darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Everything exposed by the light is made clear,

I form light and create darkness,
I make success and create disaster;
I, Yahweh, do all these things.

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or worthless.

Do not both adversity and good
come from the mouth of the Most High?

The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
observing the wicked and the good.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them time and time again, they do not listen and receive discipline.

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

Hate evil and love good;
establish justice in the gate.
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious
to the remnant of Joseph.

“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.
Remove your evil deeds from My sight.
Stop doing evil.

Don’t set foot on the path of the wicked;
don’t proceed in the way of evil ones.

“I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of Me in their hearts so they will never again turn away from Me.

“Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And off he went, proclaiming throughout the town all that Jesus had done for him.

And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.

Turn away from evil and do what is good;
seek peace and pursue it.

So now, correct your ways and deeds and obey the voice of the Lord your God so that He might relent concerning the disaster that He warned about.

Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;
keep your feet away from evil.

Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have.

He said to mankind,
“The fear of the Lord is this: wisdom.
And to turn from evil is understanding.”

giving thanks always for everything
to God the Father
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

מ MemWho is there who speaks and it happens,
unless the Lord has ordained it?

The rich and the poor have this in common:
the Lord made them both.

So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

“This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

Rejoice, young man, while you are young,
and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.
And walk in the ways of your heart
and in the sight of your eyes;
but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.

Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.

He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.

Teach a youth about the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.

So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

He will not fear bad news;
his heart is confident, trusting in the Lord.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

They turned night into day
and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

I observed all the work of God and concluded that man is unable to discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors hard to explore it, he cannot find it; even if the wise man claims to know it, he is unable to discover it.